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Screaming Suicide · Metallica

EXERCISE 5 OF 62
Groove H -- Part H
103 / 275 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 33 BARS LIT
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART H
PART M
PART G
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART G
PART H
PART S
PART W
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBHGMS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Screaming Suicide on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
275
LENGTH
5:24
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, snare through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-62, snare through bars 63-70, hi-hat through bars 71-78 and snare through bars 79-80, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
Screaming Suicide -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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, B -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 2-22 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-48 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part M -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 85-127 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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