They Move Below · Meshuggah

140 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 7:00 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
7:00
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 94-95, 98-99 and 101, and 8 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
THEY MOVE BELOW · BAR 94
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 44, 52, 60 and 12 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 9 sections: 105 keep time, 18 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-91.

CHORUS
PART L
PART W
PART AI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAIANHWL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is They Move Below?

80 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 They Move Below hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 7:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 22 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in They Move Below?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 44, 52, 60 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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