Broken, Beat & Scarred · Metallica

250 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 8:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
250
LENGTH
8:05
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 123-133, 135-136 and 139-140, and 9 more places -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BROKEN, BEAT & SCARRED · BAR 123
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 20, 28, 29 and 60 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 16-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

250 bars across 14 sections: 134 keep time, 66 are fills, 33 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 123-142.

PART M
PART U
PART M
PART U
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAAUMIC+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Broken, Beat & Scarred?

120 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 Broken, Beat & Scarred hard to play on drums?

59 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

250 bars, about 8:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 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 Broken, Beat & Scarred?

18 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 20, 28, 29 and 60 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 250 BARS ANALYSED
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