Master of Puppets · Nuckelavee

95 bars at 212 BPM -- fast, and 1:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
212 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
1:44
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-51, 53 and 55, and 8 more places -- 23.1% 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 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 28, 36, 56, 60, 64, 68 and 4 more.

LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 11 sections: 77 keep time, 10 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 84-99.

PART D
PART B
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesMHTBD+4Fill 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?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 1:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. 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?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 28, 36, 56, 60, 64, 68 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED
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