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Master of Puppets · Nuckelavee

Master of Puppets · Nuckelavee
EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove M -- Outro
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0 / 28 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART D
PART B
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesMHTBD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Master of Puppets on drums

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

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
212 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
1:44
DIFFICULTY
38/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, toms through bars 2-18, hi-hat through bars 19-21, silence through bars 22-23, toms through bars 24-25 and silence through bars 26-28, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Master of Puppets -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- M, B -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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?

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