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Am I Evil? · Metallica

EXERCISE 18 OF 88
Groove S -- Part S
185 / 313 BARS COVERED
0 / 88 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART AH
PART AH
PART AA
PART T
PART AH
PART S
OUTRO 2
12 groovesNAHAART+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 4
JOIN · 16
LINK · 11
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Am I Evil? on drums

313 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 12:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
313
LENGTH
12:50
DIFFICULTY
58/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-24, toms through bars 25-30, kick and crashes through bars 31-33, ride through bars 34-35 and silence through bars 36-51, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 68-70, 72-73 and 84, and 47 more places -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    68
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x--x--------|
Am I Evil? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 51, 59, 67, 83, 91, 95 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 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 -- R, AA -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-68 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 90-165 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and Part AA -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Am I Evil??

97 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Am I Evil? hard to play on drums?

58 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

313 bars, about 12:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 18 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 Am I Evil??

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 51, 59, 67, 83, 91, 95 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 313 BARS ANALYSED