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Pravus · Meshuggah

EXERCISE 21 OF 55
Run AD1 · Part AD (bars 65-74)
95 / 170 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AD
PART AA
PART S3
PART AD
PART AH
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAMS3AABFAH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pravus on drums

170 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 5:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
72/100

snare through bars 1-16, silence through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-56, snare through bars 57-100 and hi-hat through bars 101-116, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 87, 95 and 108, and 4 more places -- 6.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    120              121
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |xxxx----xxxxxxxx|----xxxxxxxxxxxx|
Pravus -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 104 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 98 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- AI (a two-bar phrase), BF -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part AA -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part AA and the Break -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes.
  5. Through Part S3 and Part AD -- 2 exercises, about 47 minutes.
  6. Through Part S3 and Part AD -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part S3 and Part AD -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 65-80 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pravus?

133 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 Pravus hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 Pravus?

12 fills to learn, played 104 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 98 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED