Seek & Destroy · Metallica

258 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 7:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
258
LENGTH
7:13
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 30 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 143 BPM
SEEK & DESTROY · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

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

LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BARS 22-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · 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 23 sections: 159 keep time, 44 are fills, 19 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 221-234.

CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART Z
CHORUS 4
PART N
PART AL
12 groovesEZNKAL+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Seek & Destroy?

143 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 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 7:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 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, 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?

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
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