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master of puppets · metalica

EXERCISE 1 OF 95
Groove I -- Part I
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PART D
PART M
PART I
PART M
CHORUS
PART AA
PART D
PART I
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART AX
PART I
PART I
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART E
26 groovesPEIMAF+21Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 26
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 6
JOIN · 21
LINK · 12
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play master of puppets on drums

375 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 12:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
375
LENGTH
12:40
DIFFICULTY
67/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, silence through bars 5-16, snare through bars 17-20, silence through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-24 and silence through bars 25-26, and 31 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40, 48-49 and 55-56, and 19 more places -- 13.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    48
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-----------|
master of puppets -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 41, 69, 75, 91, 100, 138 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 86 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 -- I, E -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-39 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 69-277 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is master of puppets?

120 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 master of puppets hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

375 bars, about 12:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 86 exercises over 26 sittings, about 25 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?

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 41, 69, 75, 91, 100, 138 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 375 BARS ANALYSED