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Fade to Black Live At Philadelphia, PA - May 25, 2025 · Metallica

EXERCISE 22 OF 82
Join Chorus to Part O (bars 54-56)
143 / 283 BARS COVERED
0 / 82 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART O
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART S16
CHORUS 3
PART V
PART AI
17 groovesGS16AIOV+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fade to Black Live At Philadelphia, PA - May 25, 2025 on drums

283 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 8:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
283
LENGTH
8:05
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-6, silence through bars 7-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-10, silence through bars 11-12 and kick and crashes through bars 13-14, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-34, 36-38 and 40-42, and 23 more places -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
Fade to Black Live At Philadelphia, PA - May 25, 2025 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 20, 21, 30, 31, 39, 55 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AI, V -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 20-212 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part O -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fade to Black Live At Philadelphia, PA - May 25, 2025?

140 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 Fade to Black Live At Philadelphia, PA - May 25, 2025 hard to play on drums?

46 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

283 bars, about 8:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Fade to Black Live At Philadelphia, PA - May 25, 2025?

20 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 20, 21, 30, 31, 39, 55 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 283 BARS ANALYSED