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Perpetual Black Second · Meshuggah

EXERCISE 5 OF 28
Groove U (a two-bar phrase)
52 / 173 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesSANAFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Perpetual Black Second on drums

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

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
84/100

snare through bars 1-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, snare through bars 49-56, hi-hat through bars 57-72 and snare through bars 73-173.

The beat

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.

    139              140
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---X---|
SD |--------X-------|X---------------|
BD |----------x-----|--x-x-------x---|
HF |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
Perpetual Black Second -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- AN, AF -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 49 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 8 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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