(Anesthesia) - Pulling Teeth · Metallica

69 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 1:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerIntermediate
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
1:55
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 14 and 25, and 8 more places -- 26.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 144 BPM
(ANESTHESIA) - PULLING TEETH · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 67 and 68.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 67-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 7 sections: 51 keep time, 2 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-40.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART H
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEDCHG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is (Anesthesia) - Pulling Teeth?

144 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 (Anesthesia) - Pulling Teeth hard to play on drums?

48 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 1:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in (Anesthesia) - Pulling Teeth?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 67 and 68.

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