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Now That We’re Dead · Metallica

EXERCISE 17 OF 50
Groove I -- Part I
163 / 224 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART C
PART I
CHORUS 4
7 groovesECIBZ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Now That We’re Dead on drums

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.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
6:59
DIFFICULTY
58/100

toms through bars 2-33, hi-hat through bars 34-67, snare through bars 68-73, toms through bars 74-75, hi-hat through bars 76-109 and snare through bars 110-115, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
Now That We’re Dead -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- E, B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 28-79 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 64-76 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 72-131 -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Bars 156-204 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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