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Enter Sandman · Metallica

EXERCISE 21 OF 46
2-bar fill at bar 91
127 / 172 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Enter Sandman on drums

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.

60 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
172
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
60/100

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 124-135 and kick and crashes through bars 136-139, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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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 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 29 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 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-46 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-77 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 91-106 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and the Chorus 5 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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