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Metro · System of a Down

EXERCISE 19 OF 36
Join Chorus to Part G (bars 31-33)
60 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART G
PART A
PART F
CHORUS
PART G
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesJARFGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Metro on drums

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 1-51, kick and crashes through bars 52-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-79.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 29, and 8 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
HH |--o-o-o---o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx-x|
Metro -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 20, 24, 36 and 5 more.

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 -- J, A -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-25 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-50 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Metro?

95 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 Metro hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Metro?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 20, 24, 36 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED