All Main Riffs 1983 - 2023 Part 1 · Metallica

510 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 12:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
510
LENGTH
12:35
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 180-182, 184-186 and 244-249, and 17 more places -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
ALL MAIN RIFFS 1983 - 2023 PART 1 · BAR 181
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

35 fills to learn, played 86 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 12 and 80 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 1-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

31 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

516 bars across 49 sections: 317 keep time, 86 are fills, 37 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 373-388.

PART CB
26 groovesBBGAKAGQ+21Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is All Main Riffs 1983 - 2023 Part 1?

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 All Main Riffs 1983 - 2023 Part 1 hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

510 bars, about 12:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 170 exercises over 47 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in All Main Riffs 1983 - 2023 Part 1?

35 fills to learn, played 86 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 12 and 80 more.

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