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Transfixion · Meshuggah

EXERCISE 7 OF 53
Groove H -- Part H (a two-bar phrase)
53 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART H
PART F
PART H
PART L
PART O
PART S
PART X
PART X
OUTRO
10 groovesAFXFLO+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Transfixion on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
68/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-28, snare through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44, snare through bars 45-52 and ride through bars 53-60, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 90-92, 94-96 and 98-100, and 4 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    90               91
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---------|--x---x-------x-|
Transfixion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- AF -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part F -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 1-30 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 17-32 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Transfixion?

153 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 Transfixion hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Transfixion?

11 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED