Ecstasy Of Gold · Metallica

95 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:23 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upFour drums or fewerIntermediate
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 10-11 and 14-15, and 4 more places -- 41.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
ECSTASY OF GOLD · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 26, 27, 28 and 87.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 26-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 8 sections: 71 keep time, 4 are fills, 9 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-63.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART O
OUTRO
6 groovesCOJS7M+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ecstasy Of Gold?

160 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Ecstasy Of Gold hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 2:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Ecstasy Of Gold?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 26, 27, 28 and 87.

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