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New Millennium Cyanide Christ Subdivided · Meshuggah

EXERCISE 7 OF 76
Groove J -- Part J
120 / 294 BARS COVERED
0 / 76 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT
PART J
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART L
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play New Millennium Cyanide Christ Subdivided on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
288
LENGTH
5:33
DIFFICULTY
80/100

snare through bars 1-22, hi-hat through bars 23-46, snare through bars 47-82, hi-hat through bars 83-106, snare through bars 107-169 and hi-hat through bars 170-197, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25           26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |X--g-g-g-g-g|-g--X--g-g-g|
BD |xxxx--x--x--|xxxx--x-x---|
New Millennium Cyanide Christ Subdivided -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part J -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 43-84 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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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