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Invisible Kid · Metallica

EXERCISE 1 OF 82
Groove O -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART W
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART T
PART W
CHORUS 5
PART AD
PART T
PART W
CHORUS 6
OUTRO 2
26 groovesOTADPAB+21Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 6
JOIN · 27
LINK · 8
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Invisible Kid on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
341
LENGTH
8:21
DIFFICULTY
68/100

snare through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-13, snare through bars 14-16, ride through bars 17-21, snare through bars 22-30 and silence through bars 31-33, and 33 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    46
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---x---x---x---|
SD |----X-------X---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
Invisible Kid -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 78 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 -- O, AD -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 12-19 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 16-25 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Bars 26-36 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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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