Spit Out The Bone · Metallica

298 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 7:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
298
LENGTH
7:04
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 40-46 and 49-55, and 19 more places -- 45.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 168 BPM
SPIT OUT THE BONE · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 8, 9, 39, 47, 56, 64 and 29 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 64-66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

298 bars across 19 sections: 221 keep time, 35 are fills, 22 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 168-191.

PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART AA
CHORUS 5
11 groovesDAFAAY+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Spit Out The Bone?

168 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Spit Out The Bone hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

298 bars, about 7:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 17 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Spit Out The Bone?

15 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 8, 9, 39, 47, 56, 64 and 29 more.

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