Now That We’re Dead · Metallica

224 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 6:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
6:59
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-40, 42-48 and 50-66, and 19 more places -- 42.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
NOW THAT WE’RE DEAD · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 33, 41, 49, 67, 74, 75 and 28 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 74-75 · LANDS ON BAR 76 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

224 bars across 16 sections: 175 keep time, 34 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-27.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
7 groovesECIBZ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Now That We’re Dead?

128 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 Now That We’re Dead hard to play on drums?

58 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

224 bars, about 6:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 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 Now That We’re Dead?

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 33, 41, 49, 67, 74, 75 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 224 BARS ANALYSED
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