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metal thing · raleigh

EXERCISE 13 OF 31
Groove I
54 / 82 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART A
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHESOAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play metal thing on drums

82 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
63/100

ride through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-16, toms through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-48 and toms through bars 49-82.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 13 more places -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
T2 |------------------------x---------------------------------------|
FT |--------x-------x-----------------------------------------------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-----------------------x-------x-------|
metal thing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 20, 52, 60, 81 and 82.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 29-42 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is metal thing?

120 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 thing hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 11 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 thing?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 20, 52, 60, 81 and 82.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED