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Dirty Window · Metallica

EXERCISE 5 OF 42
Groove N -- Part N
66 / 173 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART S
PART N
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFSNPB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dirty Window on drums

173 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 5:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
5:24
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-41, snare through bars 42-44, hi-hat through bars 45-49 and snare through bars 50-57, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-22, 24 and 26, and 16 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Dirty Window -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 32, 33, 45, 66, 67, 78 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 5-14 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dirty Window?

127 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 Dirty Window hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 5:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Dirty Window?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 32, 33, 45, 66, 67, 78 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED