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Shoot Me Again · Metallica

EXERCISE 13 OF 48
Groove G -- Part G
126 / 199 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT
PART C
PART G
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART C
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFQCHG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shoot Me Again on drums

199 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 7:13 of playing, on crash, 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
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
7:13
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-9, toms through bars 10-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-19, snare through bars 20-27 and hi-hat through bars 28-34, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-23, 36-39 and 60-62, and 16 more places -- 26.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    60
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----X-------X---|
BD |x-x--x-xx-x--x--|
Shoot Me Again -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 80, 134, 135, 151, 197 and 198.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Shoot Me Again?

110 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 Shoot Me Again hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

199 bars, about 7:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Shoot Me Again?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 80, 134, 135, 151, 197 and 198.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 199 BARS ANALYSED