Master of Puppets · Metallica

404 bars at 212 BPM -- fast, and 7:10 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
212 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
404
LENGTH
7:10
DIFFICULTY
64/100
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 -- 15.4% 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 · BAR 48
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 41, 52, 54, 72, 79, 95 and 40 more.

LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

404 bars across 40 sections: 213 keep time, 46 are fills, 83 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-94.

PART J
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
22 groovesFQJLG+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Master of Puppets?

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 hard to play on drums?

64 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

404 bars, about 7:10 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?

17 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 41, 52, 54, 72, 79, 95 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 404 BARS ANALYSED
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