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Seek and Destroy · Metallica

EXERCISE 20 OF 89
Groove L (a two-bar phrase)
129 / 258 BARS COVERED
0 / 89 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART J
PART D
PART J
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART AG
PART D
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
13 groovesNAGJDR+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Seek and Destroy on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
258
LENGTH
7:20
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-18, silence through bars 19-21, kick and crashes through bars 22-25 and hi-hat through bars 26-49, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    114
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Seek and Destroy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- AG, J -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-30 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part D and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 46-62 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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