Invisible Kid · Metallica

341 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 8:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
341
LENGTH
8:21
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-53, 66-73 and 106-113, and 5 more places -- 16.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 158 BPM
INVISIBLE KID · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 13, 77, 89, 101, 143, 155 and 6 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

341 bars across 47 sections: 233 keep time, 12 are fills, 44 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 197-235.

PART T
PART T
PART AD
PART T
26 groovesOTADPAB+21Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Invisible Kid?

158 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 Invisible Kid hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

341 bars, about 8:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Invisible Kid?

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 13, 77, 89, 101, 143, 155 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 341 BARS ANALYSED
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