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Atlas, Rise! · Metallica

EXERCISE 22 OF 80
2-bar fill at bar 33 and 2 more
90 / 157 BARS COVERED
0 / 80 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART A
CHORUS
PART M
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART Q
PART X
PART AL
PART M
OUTRO
10 groovesGMPQAA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Atlas, Rise! on drums

157 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 6:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
6:36
DIFFICULTY
74/100

toms through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-29, snare through bars 30-34, hi-hat through bars 35-58, snare through bars 59-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-70, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16-17 and 19-20, and 14 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    16
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x---x---x---x---x-|
Atlas, Rise! -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 9, 12, 13, 21, 31, 33 and 49 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-14 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part P -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Atlas, Rise!?

93 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 Atlas, Rise! hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 6:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Atlas, Rise!?

17 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 9, 12, 13, 21, 31, 33 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED