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Lux Æterna · Metallica

EXERCISE 28 OF 42
3-bar fill at bar 65
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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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lux Æterna on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

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

snare through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, snare through bars 26-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44, snare through bars 45-51 and kick and crashes through bars 52-55, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x--x-x--|
Lux Æterna -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-62 -- 10 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 65-94 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 82-106 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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