Leper Messiah (D standard) · METALLICA

216 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 6:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
6:20
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 16-17 and 20-29, and 14 more places -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 136 BPM
LEPER MESSIAH (D STANDARD) · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 11, 15, 18, 19, 35, 39 and 30 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

216 bars across 22 sections: 98 keep time, 36 are fills, 60 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 162-176.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART AG
PART AI
PART AG
PART AK
14 groovesHAGAKAIL+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Leper Messiah (D standard)?

136 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 Leper Messiah (D standard) hard to play on drums?

56 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?

216 bars, about 6:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Leper Messiah (D standard)?

16 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 11, 15, 18, 19, 35, 39 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED
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