Dyers Eve · Metallica

240 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 5:15 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
240
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-62, 66-77 and 104-115, and 4 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 190 BPM
DYERS EVE · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 40 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

240 bars across 19 sections: 144 keep time, 46 are fills, 19 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 165-179.

PART D
CHORUS
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART N
PART AM
9 groovesXNDAAAM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dyers Eve?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Dyers Eve hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 92 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

240 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Dyers Eve?

16 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 240 BARS ANALYSED
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