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EXERCISE 27 OF 29
Join Part N to Outro (bars 47-49)
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0 / 29 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART H
PART I
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesRHIBN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play metal bass on drums

83 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 1:54 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
1:54
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, silence through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-49, silence through bars 50-56 and kick and crashes through bars 57-83.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 58, 60 and 62, and 2 more places -- 34.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 36, 40, 42, 44 and 46.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- R, N -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-22 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part N -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is metal bass?

174 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 metal bass hard to play on drums?

41 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 1:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 metal bass?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 36, 40, 42, 44 and 46.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED