The Exquisite Machinery Of Torture · Meshuggah

132 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-18, 24-26 and 42-43, and 3 more places -- 11.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 134 BPM
THE EXQUISITE MACHINERY OF TORTURE · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 2, 3, 10, 11, 14, 15 and 44 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 2-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 18-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 18 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 26-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 21 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 9 sections: 71 keep time, 50 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-97.

PART A
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART Z
PART AE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHPAEAZFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Exquisite Machinery Of Torture?

134 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Exquisite Machinery Of Torture hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Exquisite Machinery Of Torture?

6 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 2, 3, 10, 11, 14, 15 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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