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St. Anger · Metallica

EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove Q -- Chorus
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PART D
PART N
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART S17
CHORUS 3
13 groovesQNS17KD+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play St. Anger on drums

330 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 6:56 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
330
LENGTH
6:56
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, toms through bars 26-27, kick and crashes through bars 28-30 and snare through bars 31-38, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 81-112, 168-199 and 285-316 -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    81
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
St. Anger -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 74, 78, 114, 115, 161, 165 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-52 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 79-229 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 231-288 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is St. Anger?

186 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 St. Anger hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

330 bars, about 6:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 St. Anger?

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 74, 78, 114, 115, 161, 165 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 330 BARS ANALYSED