Battery · Metallica

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, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
11:26
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

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.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BATTERY · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 29, 37, 40, 48, 51, 54 and 32 more.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BARS 54-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

217 bars across 10 sections: 135 keep time, 38 are fills, 20 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 105-116.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
8 groovesFSS2IS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Battery?

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 hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Battery?

14 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 29, 37, 40, 48, 51, 54 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 217 BARS ANALYSED
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