All Nightmare Long · Metallica

343 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 11:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
343
LENGTH
11:20
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-56, 61-64 and 93-96, and 18 more places -- 27.9% 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 · BAR 100
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 39, 48, 59 and 35 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
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

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

343 bars across 26 sections: 184 keep time, 42 are fills, 91 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-38.

PART H
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART Y
CHORUS 4
PART K
15 groovesNKSYH+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is All Nightmare Long?

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 hard to play on drums?

60 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?

343 bars, about 11:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 79 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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?

14 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 39, 48, 59 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 343 BARS ANALYSED
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