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Blitzkrieg · Metallica

EXERCISE 7 OF 72
Groove E -- Part E
75 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blitzkrieg on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
57/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-9, hi-hat through bars 10-133, ride through bars 134-137, hi-hat through bars 138-163 and snare through bars 164-165, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Break 3 and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 30-44 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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