Sabbra Cadabra · Metallica

180 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 5:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 26-27 and 29-31, and 16 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 143 BPM
SABBRA CADABRA · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 32 and 15 more.

LOOP · 143 BPM
BARS 22-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BARS 42-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

180 bars across 17 sections: 106 keep time, 21 are fills, 28 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 107-124.

CHORUS 2
PART D
PART I
PART I
PART U
PART Y
PART AI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesBIUYD+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sabbra Cadabra?

143 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Sabbra Cadabra hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Sabbra Cadabra?

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 32 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED
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