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Dyers Eve (Standard D) · Metallica

EXERCISE 21 OF 76
Groove R -- Part R
170 / 240 BARS COVERED
0 / 76 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
PART D
PART R
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dyers Eve (Standard D) on drums

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.

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
240
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
100/100

toms through bars 1-21, hi-hat through bars 22-29, kick and crashes through bars 30-31, hi-hat through bars 32-37, toms through bars 38-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-61, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    51
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Dyers Eve (Standard D) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- X -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part R -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 31-49 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dyers Eve (Standard D)?

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 (Standard D) 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 (Standard D)?

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