All Nightmare Long (Drop C) · Metallica

344 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 11:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
344
LENGTH
11:22
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-56, 61-64 and 93-96, and 17 more places -- 28.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
ALL NIGHTMARE LONG (DROP C) · BAR 100
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 10, 14, 39, 48, 59, 60 and 32 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

344 bars across 28 sections: 178 keep time, 40 are fills, 95 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 196-210.

CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART S
CHORUS 4
PART K
16 groovesNSKALAF+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is All Nightmare Long (Drop C)?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 All Nightmare Long (Drop C) hard to play on drums?

56 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

344 bars, about 11:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 19 sittings, about 28 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 Nightmare Long (Drop C)?

13 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 10, 14, 39, 48, 59, 60 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 344 BARS ANALYSED
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