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Master Of Puppets (Live) · Metallica

EXERCISE 1 OF 114
Groove H -- Chorus
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PART I
PART K
PART M
PART O
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART V
CHORUS 3
PART AX
PART I
PART O
PART W
PART A
PART O
PART V
CHORUS 4
26 groovesHOVMAT+21Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 25
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 5
JOIN · 22
LINK · 8
SECTION · 17
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Master Of Puppets (Live) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
228 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
405
LENGTH
6:43
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-5, silence through bars 6-7, kick and crashes through bars 8-17, snare through bars 18-21, silence through bars 22-23 and kick and crashes through bars 24-25, and 43 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Master Of Puppets (Live) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 19, 20, 42, 53, 73, 76 and 38 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M, O -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-25 -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-40 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part O -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part V -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 21 more sittings after that.
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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