Motorbreath · Metallica

134 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
96/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-27, and 13 more places -- 42.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 200 BPM
MOTORBREATH · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 16, 20 and 15 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 9 sections: 95 keep time, 21 are fills, 3 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 113-123.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFNLS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Motorbreath?

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

Is Motorbreath hard to play on drums?

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Motorbreath?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 16, 20 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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