Last Caress · Metallica

72 bars at 193 BPM -- fast, and 1:30 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
193 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
1:30
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 22 more places -- 45.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 193 BPM
LAST CARESS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 19, 20, 23, 24, 26 and 11 more.

LOOP · 193 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 193 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 193 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 193 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 5 sections: 41 keep time, 19 are fills, 9 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-55.

OUTRO 2
5 groovesES4ABS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Last Caress?

193 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 Last Caress hard to play on drums?

57 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 1:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Last Caress?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 19, 20, 23, 24, 26 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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