Ride The Lightning · Warren Zeiders

63 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 3:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 16-22 and 24-25, and 5 more places -- 49.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 76 BPM
RIDE THE LIGHTNING · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 13, 14, 23, 33, 34 and 9 more.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 76 BPM
BARS 13-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 76 BPM
BARS 33-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 5 sections: 41 keep time, 16 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-22.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBEDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ride The Lightning?

76 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 Lightning hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 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 Lightning?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 13, 14, 23, 33, 34 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED
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