Sickening · Meshuggah

176 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
6:11
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 71 times: bars 25, 26, 27, 30, 31, 34 and 65 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 38-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 11 sections: 61 keep time, 72 are fills, 3 are stops and 33 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 129-142.

COUNT-IN
PART F
PART N
CHORUS
BREAK
PART AU
PART BB
OUTRO
BREAK 2
10 groovesTNAUFS1+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sickening?

120 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 Sickening hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 6:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Sickening?

15 fills to learn, played 71 times: bars 25, 26, 27, 30, 31, 34 and 65 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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