Sane · Meshuggah

127 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15 and 20-26 -- 11.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
SANE · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 16, 17, 18 and 41 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 16-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 27-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 12 sections: 65 keep time, 47 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-26.

PART A
PART E
PART R
PART Q
PART S
PART V
PART Z
PART AA
OUTRO
11 groovesS12EQVA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sane?

140 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 Sane hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 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 Sane?

8 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 16, 17, 18 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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