Enter Sandman · Metallica

172 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 5:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-45, 50-51 and 53, and 18 more places -- 34.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 123 BPM
ENTER SANDMAN · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 28, 29, 49, 60, 64, 76 and 11 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 28-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

172 bars across 17 sections: 133 keep time, 18 are fills, 5 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-27.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 5
PART AE
OUTRO
8 groovesHCIAEW+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Enter Sandman?

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 hard to play on drums?

60 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?

172 bars, about 5:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 Enter Sandman?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 28, 29, 49, 60, 64, 76 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED
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