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Creeping Death · Metallica

EXERCISE 27 OF 60
Groove P
239 / 329 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART S
PART B
PART G
PART G
PART G
PART G
PART S
PART G
PART G
OUTRO
9 groovesFGBSX+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Creeping Death on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
214 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
329
LENGTH
6:09
DIFFICULTY
48/100

toms through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-18, silence through bars 19-22, toms through bars 23-25, hi-hat through bars 26-186 and toms through bars 187-218, 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 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.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
Creeping Death -- 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, 57 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, J -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-291 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 28-64 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-50 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 88-106 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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