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Don't Tread On Me · Metallica

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove F -- Chorus
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0 / 29 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Don't Tread On Me on drums

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.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
37/100

toms through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-32, toms through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-57, toms through bars 58-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-67, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |o---o-o---o-o---o-o---o-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Don't Tread On Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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, H, A -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-35 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 38-59 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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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