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Battery (Live 1993 Mexico City) · Metallica

EXERCISE 5 OF 47
Groove D
129 / 210 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART T
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
10 groovesEMTS6F+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Battery (Live 1993 Mexico City) on drums

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.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
83/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, silence through bars 4-7, kick and crashes through bars 8-11, hi-hat through bars 12-42, toms through bars 43-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-74, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13
    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 (Live 1993 Mexico City) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, M -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 12 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part S6 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  8. Bars 139-153 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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