Battery (Live 1993 Mexico City) · Metallica

210 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-18, 23-30 and 34-37, and 18 more places -- 45.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BATTERY (LIVE 1993 MEXICO CITY) · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 11, 19, 22, 33, 40, 43 and 21 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

210 bars across 14 sections: 148 keep time, 28 are fills, 12 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-32.

CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART T
CHORUS 3
10 groovesEMTS6F+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Battery (Live 1993 Mexico City)?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Battery (Live 1993 Mexico City) hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

210 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 (Live 1993 Mexico City)?

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 11, 19, 22, 33, 40, 43 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 210 BARS ANALYSED
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