New Millennium Cyanide Christ · Meshuggah

188 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

150 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

188

LENGTH

5:01

DIFFICULTY

56/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-72, snare through bars 73-156 and kick and crashes through bars 157-164, and 1 more change after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7, 15 and 18-19, and 20 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18               19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |--x-xxxxxxxxxxx-|-x--xxxx--x-x---|

7 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11 and 38 more.

It cuts the song into 45 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

1. The grooves the song is built on -- G, A -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
3. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Bars 30-126 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
6. Bars 28-166 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
7. Bars 32-85 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Bars 96-120 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
9. and 6 more sittings after that.