Hit The Lights · Metallica

165 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 28 and 30, and 21 more places -- 15.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
HIT THE LIGHTS · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 23, 25, 29 and 20 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 13 sections: 105 keep time, 26 are fills, 15 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 130-152.

PART A
PART S2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLABRAY+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hit The Lights?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Hit The Lights 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?

165 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Hit The Lights?

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 23, 25, 29 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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