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Seek & Destroy by Metallica by Metalica · Metalica

EXERCISE 7 OF 83
Groove L -- Part L
90 / 258 BARS COVERED
0 / 83 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART O
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART L
PART AA
PART AG
CHORUS 4
PART O
PART L
PART AN
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEAAOLAN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 10
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Seek & Destroy by Metallica by Metalica on drums

258 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 7:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
258
LENGTH
7:23
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-21, hi-hat through bars 22-49, ride through bars 50-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-88, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 30 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-------x-x-------x-----|
Seek & Destroy by Metallica by Metalica -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 8, 22, 23, 24, 25, 29 and 38 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part O -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Seek & Destroy by Metallica by Metalica?

140 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 by Metallica by Metalica hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

258 bars, about 7:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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 by Metallica by Metalica?

19 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 8, 22, 23, 24, 25, 29 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 258 BARS ANALYSED