Master Of Puppets (A Standard) · Metallica

417 bars at 212 BPM -- fast, and 7:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
212 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
417
LENGTH
7:25
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40, 48-49 and 51, and 22 more places -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 212 BPM
MASTER OF PUPPETS (A STANDARD) · BAR 48
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 18, 19, 41, 52, 54, 72 and 52 more.

LOOP · 212 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

417 bars across 37 sections: 181 keep time, 60 are fills, 117 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 131-144.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART F
23 groovesJFQGA+18Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Master Of Puppets (A Standard)?

212 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Master Of Puppets (A Standard) hard to play on drums?

60 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

417 bars, about 7:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 95 exercises over 27 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Master Of Puppets (A Standard)?

22 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 18, 19, 41, 52, 54, 72 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 417 BARS ANALYSED
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