Chasing Light · Metallica

287 bars of 4/4 at a walking 89 BPM, 12:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
287
LENGTH
12:54
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-35, 38-39 and 59, and 35 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 89 BPM
CHASING LIGHT · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 25, 37, 41, 58, 67, 68 and 31 more.

LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 114 · LANDS ON BAR 115

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

287 bars across 16 sections: 165 keep time, 40 are fills, 57 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-16.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART I
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
9 groovesFIKBS3+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chasing Light?

89 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 Chasing Light hard to play on drums?

47 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?

287 bars, about 12:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Chasing Light?

10 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 25, 37, 41, 58, 67, 68 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 287 BARS ANALYSED
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