2x4 · Metallica

26 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 0:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
26
LENGTH
0:53
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 16-17 and 19-21, and 1 more place -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 119 BPM
2X4 · BAR 16
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 10, 14 and 25.

LOOP · 119 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

26 bars across 2 sections: 9 keep time, 6 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-22.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesGFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 2x4?

119 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 2x4 hard to play on drums?

62 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

26 bars, about 0:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 2x4?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 10, 14 and 25.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 26 BARS ANALYSED
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