Master Of Puppets (Live) · Metallica

405 bars at 228 BPM -- fast, and 6:43 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
228 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
405
LENGTH
6:43
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 35 and 37, and 48 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 228 BPM
MASTER OF PUPPETS (LIVE) · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 19, 20, 42, 53, 73, 76 and 38 more.

LOOP · 228 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 228 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 228 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
LOOP · 228 BPM
BARS 76-77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

405 bars across 41 sections: 197 keep time, 46 are fills, 100 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-71.

PART O
CHORUS 4
26 groovesHOVMAT+21Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Master Of Puppets (Live)?

228 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 (Live) hard to play on drums?

61 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?

405 bars, about 6:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 95 exercises over 29 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 (Live)?

18 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 19, 20, 42, 53, 73, 76 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 405 BARS ANALYSED
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