Harvester of Sorrow · Metallica

133 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 5:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
5:46
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-34, 36 and 38-40, and 9 more places -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 92 BPM
HARVESTER OF SORROW · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 8, 18, 23 and 35 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 16 sections: 68 keep time, 41 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-72.

PART C
PART F
PART I
CHORUS
PART U
CHORUS 3
PART U
PART V
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
10 groovesMUICF+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Harvester of Sorrow?

92 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Harvester of Sorrow hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 5:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Harvester of Sorrow?

15 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 8, 18, 23 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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