Fade to Black · Metallica

218 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 7:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
218
LENGTH
7:43
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-38 and 41, and 18 more places -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 113 BPM
FADE TO BLACK · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

28 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 32, 39, 40, 42, 43, 44 and 52 more.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 113 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BARS 42-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

218 bars across 20 sections: 109 keep time, 59 are fills, 20 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-91.

CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART AM
OUTRO 2
14 groovesEAMOAVA+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fade to Black?

113 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 hard to play on drums?

54 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

218 bars, about 7:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Fade to Black?

28 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 32, 39, 40, 42, 43, 44 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 218 BARS ANALYSED
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