Blitzkrieg · Metallica

177 bars at 198 BPM -- fast, and 3:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 30 and 34-36, and 20 more places -- 17% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 198 BPM
BLITZKRIEG · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 43, 45, 49, 85, 123, 127 and 9 more.

LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 123 · LANDS ON BAR 124
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 127 · LANDS ON BAR 128

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 18 sections: 102 keep time, 19 are fills, 27 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-119.

PART D
PART J
PART E
CHORUS
PART S
PART L
CHORUS 2
13 groovesRJSDF+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blitzkrieg?

198 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Blitzkrieg hard to play on drums?

57 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 Blitzkrieg?

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 43, 45, 49, 85, 123, 127 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
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