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Metal · Death

EXERCISE 8 OF 54
Join Part B to Part E (bars 8-10)
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0 / 54 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART E
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART B
PART E
PART N
PART L
PART R
PART AA
PART AF
PART AG
12 groovesHBLEN+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Metal on drums

150 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
73/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-11, hi-hat through bars 12-17, snare through bars 18-25, ride through bars 26-41 and snare through bars 42-51, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-29, 32-33 and 36-37, and 7 more places -- 10.7% 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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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
RD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Metal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 27, 39, 61, 69, 76, 83 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 6-19 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 18-57 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Metal?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Metal hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Metal?

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 27, 39, 61, 69, 76, 83 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED