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72 Seasons · Metallica

EXERCISE 1 OF 63
Groove D -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 72 Seasons on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
320
LENGTH
8:00
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-85, toms through bars 86-92, hi-hat through bars 93-153, toms through bars 154-160, hi-hat through bars 161-249 and kick and crashes through bars 250-253, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---x---|
72 Seasons -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 43-227 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 82-122 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 124-182 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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