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2 X 4 · Metallica

EXERCISE 18 OF 73
Groove N
101 / 159 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AB
PART AG
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDHAGAHAB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 2 X 4 on drums

159 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 5:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
5:28
DIFFICULTY
57/100

toms through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-11, hi-hat through bars 12-49, snare through bars 50-54, hi-hat through bars 55-80 and snare through bars 81-85, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-9, 12-14 and 24, and 17 more places -- 37.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    14
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |------x-----------x-----|
HH |o-----------o-----------|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x--------x--x--------|
2 X 4 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 11, 15, 25 and 40 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, Q -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-99 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 2 X 4?

115 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 2 X 4 hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 5:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 2 X 4?

20 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 11, 15, 25 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED