Sgt. Hetfield's Motorbreath Pub Band · Beatallica

47 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 2:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
47
LENGTH
2:05
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 11 and 16, and 4 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
SGT. HETFIELD'S MOTORBREATH PUB BAND · BAR 5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 9, 10, 12, 21, 24 and 10 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

47 bars across 5 sections: 24 keep time, 16 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-20.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCHADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sgt. Hetfield's Motorbreath Pub Band?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Sgt. Hetfield's Motorbreath Pub Band hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

47 bars, about 2:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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 Sgt. Hetfield's Motorbreath Pub Band?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 9, 10, 12, 21, 24 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 47 BARS ANALYSED
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