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Battery (D Standard) · Metallica

EXERCISE 9 OF 61
Groove H
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COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART AC
CHORUS 3
9 groovesFACRS2S1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Battery (D Standard) on drums

217 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 11:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
11:26
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-12, toms through bars 13-22, silence through bars 23-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-28, hi-hat through bars 29-100 and kick and crashes through bars 101-103, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-32, 35-36 and 41-43, and 24 more places -- 38.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Battery (D Standard) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 29, 37, 40, 48, 51, 58 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- F, I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Battery (D Standard)?

76 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 Battery (D Standard) hard to play on drums?

56 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

217 bars, about 11:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 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 Battery (D Standard)?

15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 29, 37, 40, 48, 51, 58 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 217 BARS ANALYSED