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Fuel · Metallica

EXERCISE 1 OF 63
Groove D -- Part D
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PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART D
PART Q
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART Q
PART Z
PART D
PART E
PART D
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesHQDZR+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 9
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fuel on drums

238 bars at 214 BPM -- fast, and 4:26 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
214 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
238
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-13, snare through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-27, snare through bars 28-31 and hi-hat through bars 32-41, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-9, 11-12 and 18-19, and 14 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.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 27, 40, 41, 47, 48, 49 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 -- D, Q -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-76 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-50 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-196 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 66-89 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fuel?

214 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 Fuel hard to play on drums?

45 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

238 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 15 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 Fuel?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 27, 40, 41, 47, 48, 49 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 238 BARS ANALYSED