Ritual · Meshuggah

152 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 6:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
6:24
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 28, 29, 30 and 44 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 16 sections: 79 keep time, 50 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART AJ
PART O
CHORUS 4
11 groovesCOAAJAP+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ritual?

92 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 Ritual hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 6:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Ritual?

18 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 28, 29, 30 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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