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Sad But True · Metallica

EXERCISE 20 OF 33
3-bar fill at bar 70
104 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesGAOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sad But True 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.

63 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
63/100

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 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 29, 52, 70 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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.
  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 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sad But True?

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 hard to play on drums?

63 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 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 29, 52, 70 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED