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Blackened Live '89 · Metallica

EXERCISE 13 OF 87
Join Part D to Part F (bars 29-31)
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COUNT-IN
PART D
PART F
PART H
PART H
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
BREAK 3
13 groovesLS21HS1F+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 12
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blackened Live '89 on drums

233 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 7:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
233
LENGTH
7:25
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-25, hi-hat through bars 26-28, toms through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-62, snare through bars 63-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-83, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57, 61 and 79, and 21 more places -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    104
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x-----------x---|
Blackened Live '89 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 21, 29, 30, 54, 56, 60 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- L, H -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-31 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-51 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part H and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 55-68 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Blackened Live '89?

144 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Blackened Live '89 hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

233 bars, about 7:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 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 Blackened Live '89?

17 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 21, 29, 30, 54, 56, 60 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 233 BARS ANALYSED