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I Disappear · Metallica

EXERCISE 15 OF 45
Groove J
105 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART L
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHBLVE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Disappear on drums

134 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-14, snare through bars 15-18, hi-hat through bars 19-26, snare through bars 27-28, hi-hat through bars 29-44 and snare through bars 45-46, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-22, 24-25 and 30-31, and 10 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x--x--|
I Disappear -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 27, 45 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- H, L -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 47-71 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 78-111 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Disappear?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 I Disappear hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in I Disappear?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 27, 45 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED