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Seek & Destroy Bass and Drums only · Metallica

EXERCISE 8 OF 86
Fill at bar 2 and 166 (a small one)
141 / 258 BARS COVERED
0 / 86 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, BREAK 3
PART C
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART AA
BREAK 3
CHORUS 4
PART N
PART AL
13 groovesDNAACK+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Seek & Destroy Bass and Drums only on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
252
LENGTH
7:06
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, silence through bars 13-15, hi-hat through bars 16-43, ride through bars 44-52, hi-hat through bars 53-82 and ride through bars 83-91, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----x-x-x-------x-----|
Seek & Destroy Bass and Drums only -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 2, 16, 17, 18, 19, 23 and 40 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA, K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-21 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part N -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part N -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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