The Abysmal Eye · Meshuggah

214 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:53 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Progressive150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
214
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 12 and 21, and 14 more places -- 9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
THE ABYSMAL EYE · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 1, 6, 7, 10, 13, 14 and 74 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 6-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 13-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 10 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

214 bars across 21 sections: 111 keep time, 80 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 192-205.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART AH
PART E
PART BF
OUTRO
15 groovesCBUBAHBF+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Abysmal Eye?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Abysmal Eye hard to play on drums?

57 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

214 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The Abysmal Eye?

22 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 1, 6, 7, 10, 13, 14 and 74 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 214 BARS ANALYSED
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