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Creeping Death (Live In Toronto 1986) · Metallica

EXERCISE 1 OF 62
Groove G -- Part G
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PART G
CHORUS
PART K
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART G
CHORUS 5
PART G
CHORUS 6
PART G
CHORUS 7
PART Y
PART X
CHORUS 8
PART G
PART R
PART G
OUTRO
11 groovesHGBYAI+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Creeping Death (Live In Toronto 1986) on drums

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.

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

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

toms through bars 1-15, kick and crashes through bars 16-18, silence through bars 19-22, toms through bars 23-25, hi-hat through bars 26-186 and toms through bars 187-282, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    26
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--------------x-----x--|
Creeping Death (Live In Toronto 1986) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, X -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-355 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-64 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-348 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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