Hardwired · Metallica

143 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 3:13 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-28, 30-36 and 38-42, and 8 more places -- 47.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 178 BPM
HARDWIRED · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 37, 62, 78, 86, 118 and 119.

LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BARS 118-119 · LANDS ON BAR 120 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 12 sections: 107 keep time, 6 are fills and 18 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-61.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFALMBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hardwired?

178 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 Hardwired hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Hardwired?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 37, 62, 78, 86, 118 and 119.

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