Lux Æterna · Metallica

108 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 26-27, and 9 more places -- 29.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
LUX ÆTERNA · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 21, 25, 28, 33, 35, 36 and 17 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 12 sections: 58 keep time, 23 are fills, 15 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-12.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesECSAS8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lux Æterna?

120 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 Lux Æterna hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 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 Lux Æterna?

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 21, 25, 28, 33, 35, 36 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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