Cyanide · Metallica

226 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 6:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
226
LENGTH
6:41
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-20, 26-32 and 60-67, and 2 more places -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
CYANIDE · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 1, 9, 21, 24, 25, 33 and 48 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

226 bars across 22 sections: 135 keep time, 54 are fills and 15 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 134-156.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
PART R
PART AE
CHORUS 5
8 groovesEAERKG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cyanide?

130 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 Cyanide hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

226 bars, about 6:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 17 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 Cyanide?

21 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 1, 9, 21, 24, 25, 33 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 226 BARS ANALYSED
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