Damage, Inc. · Metallica

198 bars, 16:07, at 49 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
49 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
16:07
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-18 and 21-25, and 19 more places -- 40.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 49 BPM
DAMAGE, INC. · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 26, 27 and 25 more.

LOOP · 49 BPM
BARS 9-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 49 BPM
BARS 26-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 49 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 49 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

198 bars across 11 sections: 131 keep time, 31 are fills, 20 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 122-135.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Q
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
7 groovesFADQBA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Damage, Inc.?

49 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Damage, Inc. hard to play on drums?

62 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?

198 bars, about 16:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 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 Damage, Inc.?

15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 26, 27 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED
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