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They Move Below · Meshuggah

EXERCISE 11 OF 64
Groove G
58 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART AI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAIANHWL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 23
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play They Move Below on drums

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.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
7:00
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-83, toms through bars 84-85, snare through bars 86-91, toms through bars 92-93 and snare through bars 94-140.

The beat

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.

    94
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---|
They Move Below -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- AN -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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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