Obzen · Meshuggah

186 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4-8 and 18, and 5 more places -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
OBZEN · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 9, 11, 25, 27, 32, 38 and 61 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 38-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 11 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

186 bars across 14 sections: 96 keep time, 67 are fills, 4 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-24.

CHORUS
PART F
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART T
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBFAWUT+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Obzen?

170 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 Obzen hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

14 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 9, 11, 25, 27, 32, 38 and 61 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Meshuggah drum parts

EVERY MESHUGGAH CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →