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The Abysmal Eye · Meshuggah

EXERCISE 21 OF 96
Fill at bar 32 (a small one)
90 / 214 BARS COVERED
0 / 96 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 6
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Abysmal Eye on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
214
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
57/100

snare through bars 1-48, kick and crashes through bars 49-50, snare through bars 51-63, toms through bars 64-65, snare through bars 66-127 and toms through bars 128-132, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxx---xxxxx---|
The Abysmal Eye -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 73 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 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, B -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 34-49 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-81 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 99-108 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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