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Sane · Meshuggah

EXERCISE 14 OF 48
Groove P -- Part P
46 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
PART A
PART E
PART P
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sane on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
78/100

toms through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-15, toms through bars 16-19 and hi-hat through bars 20-26, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---------------|----------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x--x--x--x--|x--x--x--x--x--x|
BD |x-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx|-xx-xx-xx-xx-xxx|
Sane -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q, V -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 9-36 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 44-60 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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