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Blackened · Metallica

EXERCISE 1 OF 88
Groove M -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART I
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART V
CHORUS 3
PART AS
CHORUS 4
PART AX
OUTRO 2
16 groovesMS22IS1V+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 1
JOIN · 18
LINK · 9
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blackened on drums

234 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 7:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
234
LENGTH
7:19
DIFFICULTY
74/100

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 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57, 61 and 79, and 25 more places -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    57
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
Blackened -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 28, 29, 30, 54, 60, 62 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 70 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 -- M -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-31 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-51 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 55-97 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Blackened?

146 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 hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

234 bars, about 7:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 23 sittings, about 24 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 Blackened?

17 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 28, 29, 30, 54, 60, 62 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 234 BARS ANALYSED