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Bouling · Metallica

EXERCISE 26 OF 77
Run M1 · Part M (bars 34-55)
102 / 208 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART S10
PART M
PART S23
19 groovesJMHS10S+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 6
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bouling on drums

203 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 6:23 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
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
203
LENGTH
6:23
DIFFICULTY
65/100

toms through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-9, silence through bars 10-13, kick and crashes through bars 14-19, hi-hat through bars 20-33 and ride through bars 34-49, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 56-59 and 62-67, and 3 more places -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Bouling -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 25, 29, 50, 51, 52 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-26 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-31 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-34 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bouling?

126 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 Bouling hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

203 bars, about 6:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 17 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 Bouling?

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 25, 29, 50, 51, 52 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 203 BARS ANALYSED