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The Hurt That Finds You First · Meshuggah

EXERCISE 1 OF 57
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 57 PASSED · 47 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Hurt That Finds You First on drums

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.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
70/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-49, snare through bars 50-88, toms through bars 89-90, snare through bars 91-97 and toms through bars 98-129, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
The Hurt That Finds You First -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AZ, BB -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 66-83 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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