The Hurt That Finds You First · Meshuggah

169 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 5:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-7, 10-16 and 18-23, and 6 more places -- 29.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 127 BPM
THE HURT THAT FINDS YOU FIRST · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 8, 9, 24, 32, 33, 48 and 27 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 56-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 10 sections: 118 keep time, 33 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 154-168.

CHORUS
PART M
PART V
PART AH
PART AU
PART AZ
OUTRO
9 groovesBAZVAHAU+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Hurt That Finds You First?

127 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 The Hurt That Finds You First hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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 Hurt That Finds You First?

11 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 8, 9, 24, 32, 33, 48 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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