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Battery · Metallica

EXERCISE 36 OF 53
Join Chorus 2 to Part I (bars 143-145)
172 / 217 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART I
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Battery on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
11:26
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-12, toms through bars 13-22, silence through bars 23-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-29, hi-hat through bars 30-100 and kick and crashes through bars 101-103, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    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 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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, I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and the Chorus 2 -- 11 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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