Perpetual Black Second · Meshuggah

173 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 139-141, 145-147 and 151-153, and 3 more places -- 10.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
PERPETUAL BLACK SECOND · BARS 139-140
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 113 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 107 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 1-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 36 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 44-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 17 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 68-109 · LANDS ON BAR 110 · PLAYED 42 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

173 bars across 3 sections: 33 keep time, 113 are fills and 24 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 110-116.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesSANAFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Perpetual Black Second?

150 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 Perpetual Black Second hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Perpetual Black Second?

6 fills to learn, played 113 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 107 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED
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