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All Nightmare Long · Metallica

EXERCISE 1 OF 94
Groove N -- Chorus
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0 / 94 PASSED · 95 BARS LIT
PART H
PART K
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART Y
CHORUS 4
PART K
PART AN
CHORUS 5
PART S20
CHORUS 6
PART AV
15 groovesNKSYH+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 19
LINK · 14
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play All Nightmare Long on drums

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.

60 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
343
LENGTH
11:20
DIFFICULTY
60/100

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 28 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 18 more places -- 27.9% 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 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 79 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 -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-21 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-43 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-76 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 69-120 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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