Creeping Death (Live In Toronto 1986) · Metallica

406 bars at 256 BPM -- fast, and 6:21 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
256 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
406
LENGTH
6:21
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 28 and 32, and 70 more places -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 256 BPM
CREEPING DEATH (LIVE IN TORONTO 1986) · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 17, 24, 25, 41, 45, 73 and 16 more.

LOOP · 256 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 256 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 256 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 256 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

406 bars across 27 sections: 319 keep time, 22 are fills, 17 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 223-265.

CHORUS 4
CHORUS 6
CHORUS 7
PART Y
CHORUS 8
PART G
OUTRO
11 groovesHGBYAI+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Creeping Death (Live In Toronto 1986)?

256 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Creeping Death (Live In Toronto 1986) hard to play on drums?

60 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

406 bars, about 6:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Creeping Death (Live In Toronto 1986)?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 17, 24, 25, 41, 45, 73 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 406 BARS ANALYSED
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