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Battery (Metallica cover) · MACHINE HEAD

EXERCISE 19 OF 55
Groove O
153 / 218 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Battery (Metallica cover) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
218
LENGTH
11:06
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-12, toms through bars 13-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-22, silence through bars 23-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-101, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Battery (Metallica cover) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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, G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 100-116 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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