Creeping Death · Metallica

329 bars at 214 BPM -- fast, and 6:09 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
214 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
329
LENGTH
6:09
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 28 and 32, and 67 more places -- 23.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 214 BPM
CREEPING DEATH · 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, 57 and 16 more.

LOOP · 214 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 214 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 214 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 214 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

329 bars across 28 sections: 248 keep time, 22 are fills, 10 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 188-217.

PART B
PART G
PART G
PART S
PART G
OUTRO
9 groovesFGBSX+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Creeping Death?

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

Is Creeping Death hard to play on drums?

48 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

329 bars, about 6:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 17, 24, 25, 41, 45, 57 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 329 BARS ANALYSED
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