4 horsemen alt · Metallica

45 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 1:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
45
LENGTH
1:45
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 9 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 102 BPM
4 HORSEMEN ALT · BAR 5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 11, 35, 36 and 1 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 45

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

45 bars across 6 sections: 28 keep time, 7 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-26.

CHORUS
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEGDQMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 4 horsemen alt?

102 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 4 horsemen alt hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

45 bars, about 1:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 4 horsemen alt?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 11, 35, 36 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 45 BARS ANALYSED
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