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Harvester of Sorrow · Metallica

EXERCISE 28 OF 78
Join Part I to Chorus (bars 30-32)
75 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Harvester of Sorrow on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
5:46
DIFFICULTY
70/100

toms through bars 1-2, kick and crashes through bars 3-10, toms through bars 11-31, hi-hat through bars 32-50, toms through bars 51-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-57, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-x---x-----|
Harvester of Sorrow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- M, U -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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