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Nothing Else Matters v2 · MetallicA

EXERCISE 17 OF 29
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBS1IFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nothing Else Matters v2 on drums

114 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 71 BPM, 4:49 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
71 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-63, ride through bars 64-67 and hi-hat through bars 68-114.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 22-29 and 31-39, and 21 more places -- 73.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |------X-----|
BD |x-----------|
Nothing Else Matters v2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 21, 30, 45, 61, 69, 71 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 62-68 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 9 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Nothing Else Matters v2?

71 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Nothing Else Matters v2 hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 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 Nothing Else Matters v2?

10 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 21, 30, 45, 61, 69, 71 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED