Battery (Metallica cover) · MACHINE HEAD

218 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 11:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
218
LENGTH
11:06
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-32, 41-48 and 52-53, and 24 more places -- 34.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BATTERY (METALLICA COVER) · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 54, 55, 58, 61, 62, 68 and 25 more.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 54-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 61-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

218 bars across 14 sections: 136 keep time, 31 are fills, 22 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-40.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART G
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
9 groovesFGSS2S1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Battery (Metallica cover)?

78 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 (Metallica cover) hard to play on drums?

51 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?

218 bars, about 11:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 (Metallica cover)?

14 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 54, 55, 58, 61, 62, 68 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 218 BARS ANALYSED
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