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Prince Charming · Metallica

EXERCISE 11 OF 63
Fill at bar 30, 50, 100 and 2 more (a small one)
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PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 6
OUTRO 2
12 groovesFIKHN+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 4
JOIN · 17
LINK · 13
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Prince Charming on drums

295 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 9:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
295
LENGTH
9:05
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-26, toms through bars 27-30, hi-hat through bars 31-95, toms through bars 96-100 and hi-hat through bars 101-138, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 32-37 and 39-43, and 48 more places -- 36.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-------x---x-|
Prince Charming -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 30, 50, 100, 176 and 295.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- F, G -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 25-86 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-70 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 89-137 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus 4 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 168-196 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Prince Charming?

130 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 Prince Charming hard to play on drums?

47 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

295 bars, about 9:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Prince Charming?

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 30, 50, 100, 176 and 295.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 295 BARS ANALYSED