Straws Pulled At Random · Meshuggah

173 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 43, 47 and 111-112, and 11 more places -- 15% 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
STRAWS PULLED AT RANDOM · BARS 111-112
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 13, 14 and 54 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 13-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

173 bars across 10 sections: 97 keep time, 60 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 150-172.

PART D
PART C
PART F
PART F
PART R
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesORFCD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Straws Pulled At Random?

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 Straws Pulled At Random hard to play on drums?

61 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Straws Pulled At Random?

17 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 13, 14 and 54 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED
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