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Chasing Light · Metallica

EXERCISE 18 OF 56
Groove J
195 / 287 BARS COVERED
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PART B
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
9 groovesFIKBS3+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chasing Light on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
287
LENGTH
12:54
DIFFICULTY
47/100

toms through bars 2-13, hi-hat through bars 14-18, silence through bars 19-23, toms through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-66 and snare through bars 67-68, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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, I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-36 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-58 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-227 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 114-163 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 163-230 -- 12 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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