Frantic · Metallica

233 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 5:38 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
233
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 41-43 and 45-51, and 6 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 162 BPM
FRANTIC · BAR 72
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 20, 24, 32, 36, 64, 93 and 9 more.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BARS 93-94 · LANDS ON BAR 95 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 229 · LANDS ON BAR 230
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

233 bars across 24 sections: 144 keep time, 15 are fills, 39 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-86.

PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
14 groovesIGODK+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Frantic?

162 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Frantic hard to play on drums?

57 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?

233 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Frantic?

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 20, 24, 32, 36, 64, 93 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 233 BARS ANALYSED
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