ManUNkind · Metallica

280 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 8:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
280
LENGTH
8:02
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 111-126, 145-161 and 163, and 11 more places -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 122 BPM
MANUNKIND · BARS 111-112
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 38, 42, 64, 65, 70, 71 and 21 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BARS 64-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 228 · LANDS ON BAR 229

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

280 bars across 23 sections: 143 keep time, 27 are fills, 58 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-61.

COUNT-IN
PART A
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART V
PART S
PART K
PART S
OUTRO 2
11 groovesGSKS1V+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is ManUNkind?

122 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 ManUNkind hard to play on drums?

46 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

280 bars, about 8:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 ManUNkind?

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 38, 42, 64, 65, 70, 71 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 280 BARS ANALYSED
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