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Spit Out The Bone · Metallica

EXERCISE 5 OF 84
2-bar fill at bar 8 and 1 more
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PART A
PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART AA
PART A
CHORUS 5
11 groovesDAFAAY+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 14
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Spit Out The Bone on drums

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

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

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
298
LENGTH
7:04
DIFFICULTY
68/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-19, snare through bars 20-38, hi-hat through bars 39-64 and snare through bars 65-75, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x----x--|
Spit Out The Bone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- D, R -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-40 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 105-129 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part T -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 298 BARS ANALYSED