King Nothing · Metallica

147 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 5:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 35 and 47-49, and 10 more places -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 112 BPM
KING NOTHING · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 25, 26, 34, 42, 44, 45 and 21 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 44-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 18 sections: 92 keep time, 27 are fills, 6 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-117.

PART A
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART X
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFCGAK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is King Nothing?

112 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 King Nothing hard to play on drums?

54 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 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 King Nothing?

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 25, 26, 34, 42, 44, 45 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
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