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Cyanide · Metallica

EXERCISE 31 OF 83
2-bar fill at bar 46 and 1 more
150 / 226 BARS COVERED
0 / 83 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART G
PART R
PART AE
CHORUS 5
8 groovesEAERKG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cyanide on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

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

toms through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-20, snare through bars 21-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, snare through bars 34-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-56, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x-x--x--x-|
Cyanide -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AE, R -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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