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Fade to Black · Metallica

EXERCISE 1 OF 88
Groove E -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 28
LAND · 28
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fade to Black on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
218
LENGTH
7:43
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-7, silence through bars 8-9, toms through bars 10-11, silence through bars 12-13 and toms through bars 14-15, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |--------X-------|
BD |g-----x-------x-|
Fade to Black -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AV -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AM -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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