Don't Tread On Me · Metallica

109 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 162 BPM, 3:57 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-18, 20 and 22, and 10 more places -- 36.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 162 BPM
DON'T TREAD ON ME · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 14, 30, 33, 34, 43, 46 and 7 more.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 162 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 7 sections: 56 keep time, 13 are fills and 35 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-13.

PART A
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesFS7HAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Don't Tread On Me?

162 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Don't Tread On Me hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 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 Don't Tread On Me?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 14, 30, 33, 34, 43, 46 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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