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Hardwired · Metallica

EXERCISE 26 OF 35
Join Chorus 4 to Part M (bars 113-115)
132 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 4, PART M
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART L
CHORUS 4
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFALMBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hardwired on drums

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.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
79/100

snare through bars 1-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-43, snare through bars 44-45, hi-hat through bars 46-68 and snare through bars 69-70, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-g-x-g-x-g-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Hardwired -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- F, A -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-24 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 69-98 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 99-115 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 111-123 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED