Room of Mirrors · Metallica

217 bars at 159 BPM -- fast, and 5:28 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
159 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
5:28
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-23 and 26, and 25 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 159 BPM
ROOM OF MIRRORS · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 59, 66, 69, 74, 98, 100 and 18 more.

LOOP · 159 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 159 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 159 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 159 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

217 bars across 18 sections: 131 keep time, 24 are fills, 37 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-9.

PART I
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART I
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
11 groovesHIAHWM+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Room of Mirrors?

159 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Room of Mirrors hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

217 bars, about 5:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 18 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 Room of Mirrors?

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 59, 66, 69, 74, 98, 100 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 217 BARS ANALYSED
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