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Ecstasy Of Gold · Metallica

EXERCISE 4 OF 23
Groove D (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 23 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ecstasy Of Gold on drums

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

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-16, snare through bars 17-19, hi-hat through bars 20-28, snare through bars 29-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-63, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Ecstasy Of Gold -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- C, O -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-36 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 62-86 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED