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Broken, Beat & Scarred · Metallica

EXERCISE 4 OF 74
Groove U -- Part U
71 / 250 BARS COVERED
0 / 74 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT · IN THE PART U, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Broken, Beat & Scarred on drums

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.

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

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

hi-hat through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-18, hi-hat through bars 19-55, toms through bars 56-58, hi-hat through bars 59-61 and snare through bars 62-73, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    123
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x-------x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Broken, Beat & Scarred -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- AA, M -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 10-32 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part M -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part U -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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