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Room of Mirrors · Metallica

EXERCISE 1 OF 74
Groove H -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Room of Mirrors on drums

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.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
159 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
5:28
DIFFICULTY
74/100

snare through bars 1-14, silence through bars 15-17, hi-hat through bars 18-45, snare through bars 46-49, hi-hat through bars 50-53 and snare through bars 54-55, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x---xx--|
Room of Mirrors -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 59, 66, 69, 74, 98, 100 and 18 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-14 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-64 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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