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Metallica · For Whom The Bell Tolls

Metallica · For Whom The Bell Tolls
EXERCISE 24 OF 60
Run E2 · Chorus 2 (bars 23-40)
100 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesELZBGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Metallica on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
56/100

toms through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-103, snare through bars 104-107, hi-hat through bars 108-119, snare through bars 120-123 and toms through bars 124-128, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 23-24 and 26, and 22 more places -- 52.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Metallica -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 3, 7, 9, 17, 25 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part L and the Chorus 3 -- 11 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Outro -- 9 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Metallica?

140 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 Metallica hard to play on drums?

56 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Metallica?

19 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 3, 7, 9, 17, 25 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED