← SONGS

New Millennium Cyanide Christ · Meshuggah

EXERCISE 9 OF 55
Groove N -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
108 / 213 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART S3, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART S3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesJPNS3S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play New Millennium Cyanide Christ on drums

213 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 5:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
213
LENGTH
5:35
DIFFICULTY
84/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-56, hi-hat through bars 57-72, snare through bars 73-113 and hi-hat through bars 114-129, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 36, 76 and 131, and 18 more places -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    170              171
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |-g-g-g--X--g-g-g|-g-g-g--X--g-g-g|
BD |x--x--xxx---x--x|--xxxxxxx---x--x|
New Millennium Cyanide Christ -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 90 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 84 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- P -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part S3 -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is New Millennium Cyanide Christ?

152 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is New Millennium Cyanide Christ hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

213 bars, about 5:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 19 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in New Millennium Cyanide Christ?

17 fills to learn, played 90 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 84 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 213 BARS ANALYSED