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Leper Messiah (D standard) · METALLICA

EXERCISE 21 OF 69
Fill at bar 43 and 81 (a small one)
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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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Leper Messiah (D standard) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
6:20
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 2-3, snare through bars 4-11, hi-hat through bars 12-63, toms through bars 64-65, hi-hat through bars 66-101 and toms through bars 102-103, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Leper Messiah (D standard) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- H -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG, AI -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part A -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-71 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 43-56 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 52-74 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 73-109 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 113-137 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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