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Seek & Destroy · Metallica

EXERCISE 21 OF 81
Fill at bar 41 (a small one)
152 / 258 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Seek & Destroy on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
258
LENGTH
7:13
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-18, silence 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 -- 18.1% 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-----|
Seek & Destroy -- 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 61 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 -- Z -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-34 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part N -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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