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Metal Mistress · Bdee

EXERCISE 17 OF 26
Join Chorus 2 to Outro (bars 55-57)
62 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART A
PART S3
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFKJIA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Metal Mistress on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
39/100

snare through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-22, kick and crashes through bars 23-27, hi-hat through bars 28-76, toms through bars 77-78 and kick and crashes through bars 79-81.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-22, 28-35 and 45-56 -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    15               16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|------------x---|
HH |----x-x-----x-x-|----x-x---------|
SD |x-------x-------|x----------x----|
T2 |----------------|--------x-------|
FT |----------------|---------xx-----|
BD |x---x-x-x---x-x-|x---x-x-xxxxx---|
Metal Mistress -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 26, 77, 78 and 79.

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 -- F -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, I -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-27 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-56 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Metal Mistress?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Mistress hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Mistress?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 26, 77, 78 and 79.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED