Living Dead · Metallica

186 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO

120 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

186

LENGTH

6:16

DIFFICULTY

41/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-40, snare through bars 41-60, toms through bars 61-62, hi-hat through bars 63-86 and kick and crashes through bars 87-94, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-28 and 71-86 -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13               14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x-----------|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---------|
T1 |----------------|--------x-x-x-x-|
T2 |----------------|--------x-x-x-x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x-----------|

4 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 13 more.

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- L, Q -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
3. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
4. Bars 9-50 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Bars 42-115 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Bars 114-127 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
7. Bars 118-166 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Bars 167-184 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.