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(Anesthesia) - Pulling Teeth · Metallica

EXERCISE 19 OF 23
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 62-64)
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play (Anesthesia) - Pulling Teeth on drums

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

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
1:55
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-66 and snare through bars 67-69.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--xx------xx----|
(Anesthesia) - Pulling Teeth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- D, B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 40-63 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED