New Millennium Cyanide Christ Subdivided · Meshuggah

288 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 152 BPM, 5:33 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
288
LENGTH
5:33
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-26, 31-32 and 37-38, and 13 more places -- 9.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 152 BPM
NEW MILLENNIUM CYANIDE CHRIST SUBDIVIDED · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 136 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 130 more.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

294 bars across 15 sections: 130 keep time, 136 are fills, 11 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 163-191.

PART J
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART J
CHORUS 4
PART AH
OUTRO 2
10 groovesNJKAHAR+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is New Millennium Cyanide Christ Subdivided?

152 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Subdivided hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 87 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

288 bars, about 5:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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 Subdivided?

17 fills to learn, played 136 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 130 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 288 BARS ANALYSED
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