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Master of Puppets · Metallica

EXERCISE 18 OF 104
Fill at bar 54 (a small one)
186 / 404 BARS COVERED
0 / 104 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART J
PART J
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
22 groovesFQJLG+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 24
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 5
JOIN · 16
LINK · 12
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Master of Puppets on drums

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.

64 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
404
LENGTH
7:10
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat 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 30 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 -- 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.

    48
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
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

17 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 41, 52, 54, 72, 79, 95 and 40 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 -- J, F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 36-133 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-297 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 67-83 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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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