This Spiteful Snake · Meshuggah

147 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 116-117, 120 and 124-125, and 5 more places -- 8.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
THIS SPITEFUL SNAKE · BARS 116-117
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 123 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8 and 117 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 19-79 · LANDS ON BAR 80 · PLAYED 61 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 4 sections: 21 keep time, 123 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 95-98.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS3BPS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This Spiteful Snake?

130 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 This Spiteful Snake hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 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 This Spiteful Snake?

9 fills to learn, played 123 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8 and 117 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
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