Sum · Meshuggah

82 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 2:36 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 37-38, 44-45 and 51-52, and 4 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 126 BPM
SUM · BARS 37-38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 25 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 1-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 31 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 3 sections: 44 keep time, 31 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-65.

CHORUS
OUTRO
2 groovesVS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sum?

126 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 Sum hard to play on drums?

51 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?

82 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Sum?

1 fill to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 25 more.

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