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Ride the lighting · Metallica

EXERCISE 23 OF 85
Run I1 · Part I (bars 21-27)
140 / 249 BARS COVERED
0 / 85 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AD
PART Z
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEADZWI+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ride the lighting on drums

249 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 6:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
249
LENGTH
6:31
DIFFICULTY
61/100

toms through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-37, ride through bars 38-41, hi-hat through bars 42-43, ride through bars 44-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-63, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-14, 17-19 and 26-27, and 13 more places -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------------x-|
Ride the lighting -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 12, 15, 16, 20, 24, 29 and 61 more.

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 -- E, Z -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-13 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-28 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Bars 126-235 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ride the lighting?

152 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 Ride the lighting hard to play on drums?

61 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?

249 bars, about 6:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 Ride the lighting?

23 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 12, 15, 16, 20, 24, 29 and 61 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 249 BARS ANALYSED