Enter Sandman Backing Track · METALLICA

166 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 5:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

123 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

166

LENGTH

5:22

DIFFICULTY

59/100

hi-hat through bars 2-9, toms through bars 10-29, hi-hat through bars 30-103, toms through bars 104-123, hi-hat through bars 124-144 and toms through bars 145-166.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-45, 50-51 and 53, and 18 more places -- 35.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 28, 29, 49, 60, 64, 76 and 12 more.

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- H, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
3. Through Part B and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
4. Bars 21-46 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
6. Bars 77-106 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
7. Through Part C and the Chorus 5 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. Through Part C and the Chorus 5 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.