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Suicide And Redemption · Metallica

EXERCISE 38 OF 115
Groove AG
216 / 372 BARS COVERED
0 / 115 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART X, PART AF
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART X
PART AF
PART AM
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesFDEXAM+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 28
LAND · 28
RUN · 4
JOIN · 16
LINK · 14
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Suicide And Redemption on drums

372 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 9:00 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
372
LENGTH
9:00
DIFFICULTY
55/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-36, snare through bars 37-44, hi-hat through bars 45-48, snare through bars 49-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-60, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-43, 49-51 and 53-55, and 32 more places -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|
Suicide And Redemption -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

28 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 44, 46, 48, 52, 56, 58 and 89 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 86 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, E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-53 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 147-224 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part AF -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part X -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Suicide And Redemption?

162 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 Suicide And Redemption hard to play on drums?

55 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

372 bars, about 9:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 86 exercises over 22 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Suicide And Redemption?

28 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 44, 46, 48, 52, 56, 58 and 89 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 372 BARS ANALYSED