72 Seasons · Metallica

320 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 8:00 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
320
LENGTH
8:00
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-43, 94-109 and 112-120, and 5 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
72 SEASONS · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 34, 44, 57, 66, 89, 93 and 22 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

320 bars across 15 sections: 252 keep time, 28 are fills and 22 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-32.

PART A
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART A
CHORUS 4
PART G
PART F
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDFAGL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 72 Seasons?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is 72 Seasons hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

320 bars, about 8:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 72 Seasons?

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 34, 44, 57, 66, 89, 93 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 320 BARS ANALYSED
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