Full Metal Jacket · Fractality

301 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 8:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
301
LENGTH
8:55
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-14, 16-18 and 20-22, and 8 more places -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
FULL METAL JACKET · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 15, 19, 39, 75, 76, 116 and 17 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 75-76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

301 bars across 18 sections: 240 keep time, 23 are fills, 11 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 141-167.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART Z
PART AD
PART K
PART AI
12 groovesGKZAIAD+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Full Metal Jacket?

135 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 Full Metal Jacket hard to play on drums?

56 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

301 bars, about 8:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Full Metal Jacket?

17 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 15, 19, 39, 75, 76, 116 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 301 BARS ANALYSED
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