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Fixxxer · Metallica

EXERCISE 25 OF 85
Run E2 · Part E (bars 86-106)
151 / 267 BARS COVERED
0 / 85 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
COUNT-IN
PART A
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART V
OUTRO
12 groovesJEVABG+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fixxxer on drums

267 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 9:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
267
LENGTH
9:52
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-14, kick and crashes through bars 15-34, hi-hat through bars 35-68, ride through bars 69-84, hi-hat through bars 85-110 and ride through bars 111-126, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 69-74, 77-81 and 111-116, and 13 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    69               70
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
BD |------x-------x-|--x---x---x---x-|
Fixxxer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 34, 49, 68, 84, 92, 110 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- J, D -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 34-60 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 126-181 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Bars 130-147 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fixxxer?

108 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 Fixxxer hard to play on drums?

49 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

267 bars, about 9:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Fixxxer?

19 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 34, 49, 68, 84, 92, 110 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 267 BARS ANALYSED