Nostrum · Meshuggah

178 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:35 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 4-5, 7 and 10-11, and 6 more places -- 8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
NOSTRUM · BARS 4-5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 142 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 11, 14, 15 and 136 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 3-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 47-103 · LANDS ON BAR 104 · PLAYED 57 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 6 sections: 25 keep time, 142 are fills, 4 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 109-113.

PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBBBCCFS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nostrum?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Nostrum hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Nostrum?

12 fills to learn, played 142 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 11, 14, 15 and 136 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED
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