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Enter Sandman for Small Drum Kits · Metallica

EXERCISE 1 OF 50
Groove K -- Part K
0 / 171 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 38 BARS LIT
PART H
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 4
PART K
PART Z
11 groovesLKEHM+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Enter Sandman for Small Drum Kits on drums

171 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 5:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

51 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
171
LENGTH
5:32
DIFFICULTY
51/100

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 124-136 and silence through bars 137-139, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-32, 34-36 and 38-40, and 14 more places -- 22.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Enter Sandman for Small Drum Kits -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 49, 76, 96, 122, 123, 129 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- K, L -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-21 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-50 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-92 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 91-116 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and the Chorus 4 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Enter Sandman for Small Drum Kits?

123 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Enter Sandman for Small Drum Kits hard to play on drums?

51 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 5:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Enter Sandman for Small Drum Kits?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 49, 76, 96, 122, 123, 129 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED