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Metallica: · MetallicA

EXERCISE 9 OF 61
Groove H
96 / 191 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART I
PART Q
PART I
PART E
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
12 groovesFEIQR+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Metallica: on drums

191 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

48 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
191
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-6, silence through bars 7-14, hi-hat through bars 15-121, toms through bars 122-124 and hi-hat through bars 125-129, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 28 and 32, and 34 more places -- 24.4% 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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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-------x---x-|
Metallica: -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 35, 43, 45, 47, 49, 50 and 16 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 -- E, F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 24-184 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-36 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Bars 36-53 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part R -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Metallica:?

140 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 Metallica: hard to play on drums?

48 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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:?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 35, 43, 45, 47, 49, 50 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED