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Sad But True by Metallica (2) · Ross Carnes

EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove G -- Outro
0 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 70 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesGAOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sad But True by Metallica (2) on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 5:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-70, snare through bars 71-72, hi-hat through bars 73-114, snare through bars 115-117 and hi-hat through bars 118-121.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-13, 15-16 and 20, and 22 more places -- 57.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    11
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
Sad But True by Metallica (2) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 29, 52, 70 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- G, O -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part A and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 9 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sad But True by Metallica (2)?

93 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 Sad But True by Metallica (2) hard to play on drums?

55 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sad But True by Metallica (2)?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 29, 52, 70 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED