Seek and Destroy · Metallica

258 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 7:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
258
LENGTH
7:20
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 113-119, 121-123 and 125-127, and 9 more places -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 141 BPM
SEEK AND DESTROY · BAR 114
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 7, 8, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 51 more.

LOOP · 141 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 141 BPM
BARS 22-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

258 bars across 22 sections: 150 keep time, 57 are fills, 24 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 223-237.

PART J
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART AG
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
13 groovesNAGJDR+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Seek and Destroy?

141 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Seek and Destroy hard to play on drums?

60 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

258 bars, about 7:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 18 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 Seek and Destroy?

22 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 7, 8, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 51 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 258 BARS ANALYSED
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