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Die, Die My Darling · Metallica

EXERCISE 6 OF 14
Run B1 · Outro (bars 1-11)
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0 / 14 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Die, Die My Darling on drums

103 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 2:19 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare 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
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:19
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-19, snare through bars 20-21, hi-hat through bars 22-58, snare through bars 59-60, hi-hat through bars 61-97 and snare through bars 98-103.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 9-10 and 13-19, and 6 more places -- 74.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---------------|
HH |--x-X-x-x-x-X-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Die, Die My Darling -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 2, 20, 21, 59, 60 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Die, Die My Darling?

178 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 Die, Die My Darling 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 2:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Die, Die My Darling?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 2, 20, 21, 59, 60 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED