Moth Into Flame · Metallica

260 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 6:05 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
171 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
260
LENGTH
6:05
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-20, 22-24 and 26-28, and 12 more places -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 171 BPM
MOTH INTO FLAME · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 13, 123, 139, 164, 165 and 20 more.

LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 123 · LANDS ON BAR 124
LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 139 · LANDS ON BAR 140

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

260 bars across 15 sections: 214 keep time, 26 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-74.

PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART O
PART Z
PART AD
OUTRO
11 groovesHFIOAD+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Moth Into Flame?

171 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Moth Into Flame hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

260 bars, about 6:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Moth Into Flame?

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 13, 123, 139, 164, 165 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 260 BARS ANALYSED
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