Screaming Suicide · Metallica

275 bars at 202 BPM -- fast, and 5:24 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
275
LENGTH
5:24
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31, 33 and 35, and 39 more places -- 25.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 202 BPM
SCREAMING SUICIDE · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 29, 38, 46, 50, 62, 78 and 14 more.

LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

275 bars across 18 sections: 178 keep time, 20 are fills and 55 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 196-226.

CHORUS 2
PART H
PART M
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART G
PART S
PART W
9 groovesBHGMS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Screaming Suicide?

202 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 Screaming Suicide hard to play on drums?

48 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

275 bars, about 5:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Screaming Suicide?

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 29, 38, 46, 50, 62, 78 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 275 BARS ANALYSED
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