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Frantic · Metallica

EXERCISE 23 OF 61
Part G into Part K with the record (bars 49-56)
153 / 233 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART K
PART G
PART K
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
14 groovesIGODK+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 5
JOIN · 14
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Frantic on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
233
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-25, silence through bars 26-28, snare through bars 29-66, hi-hat through bars 67-86 and toms through bars 87-94, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    72
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x---x-|
Frantic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- I, D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-16 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-56 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-68 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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