Seek & Destroy Bass and Drums only · Metallica

252 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 7:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
252
LENGTH
7:06
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 33 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 142 BPM
SEEK & DESTROY BASS AND DRUMS ONLY · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 2, 16, 17, 18, 19, 23 and 40 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BARS 16-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

258 bars across 20 sections: 165 keep time, 46 are fills, 16 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 216-228.

CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART AA
CHORUS 4
PART N
PART AL
13 groovesDNAACK+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Seek & Destroy Bass and Drums only?

142 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 Seek & Destroy Bass and Drums only hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

252 bars, about 7:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 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 & Destroy Bass and Drums only?

19 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 2, 16, 17, 18, 19, 23 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 252 BARS ANALYSED
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