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Last Caress · Metallica

EXERCISE 5 OF 25
Groove H
39 / 72 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
OUTRO 2
5 groovesES4ABS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Last Caress on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
193 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
1:30
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-72.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Last Caress -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- E, F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Outro 2 -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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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