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All Nightmare Long (Drop C) · Metallica

EXERCISE 34 OF 94
Join Chorus to Part S (bars 67-69)
236 / 344 BARS COVERED
0 / 94 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART S
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
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 20
LINK · 17
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play All Nightmare Long (Drop C) on drums

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.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
344
LENGTH
11:22
DIFFICULTY
56/100

toms through bars 1-19, hi-hat through bars 20-23, toms through bars 24-39, hi-hat through bars 40-56, kick and crashes through bars 57-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-64, and 27 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    100
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
All Nightmare Long (Drop C) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 80 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 -- N, K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-27 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 28-43 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 65-97 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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