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Bleeding Me · Metallica

EXERCISE 27 OF 105
Fill at bar 48 (a small one)
91 / 241 BARS COVERED
0 / 105 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART O
CHORUS
PART O
PART O
PART AK
PART AZ
PART BN
OUTRO 2
13 groovesAOAZDAK+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 12
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bleeding Me on drums

241 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 8:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
241
LENGTH
8:19
DIFFICULTY
49/100

ride through bars 1-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48, ride through bars 49-72, hi-hat through bars 73-79, snare through bars 80-85 and toms through bars 86-88, and 24 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 10-11 and 13, and 14 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Bleeding Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 23, 24, 40, 48, 55, 56 and 50 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 81 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 -- A, D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part J and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-85 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part D and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 65-97 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bleeding Me?

116 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 Bleeding Me hard to play on drums?

49 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

241 bars, about 8:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Bleeding Me?

23 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 23, 24, 40, 48, 55, 56 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 241 BARS ANALYSED