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Master Of Puppets (A Standard) · Metallica

EXERCISE 21 OF 118
Groove O
206 / 417 BARS COVERED
0 / 118 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART R, PART G
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART R
PART G
PART F
23 groovesJFQGA+18Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 25
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 12
SECTION · 16
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Master Of Puppets (A Standard) on drums

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.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
212 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
417
LENGTH
7:25
DIFFICULTY
60/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, silence through bars 5-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-16, snare through bars 17-20, silence through bars 21-22 and kick and crashes through bars 23-24, and 53 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    48
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Master Of Puppets (A Standard) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 95 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 -- J, F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 39-335 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 67-297 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 19 more sittings after that.
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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