That Was Just Your Life · Metallica

296 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 14:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
296
LENGTH
14:04
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-51, 72-74 and 92-94, and 12 more places -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 84 BPM
THAT WAS JUST YOUR LIFE · BAR 48
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 25, 27, 63, 71, 91, 95 and 8 more.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 95 · LANDS ON BAR 96 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

296 bars across 22 sections: 229 keep time, 14 are fills, 27 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 208-229.

PART A
CHORUS 3
PART M
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
10 groovesIAMKJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is That Was Just Your Life?

84 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 That Was Just Your Life hard to play on drums?

58 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

296 bars, about 14:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in That Was Just Your Life?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 25, 27, 63, 71, 91, 95 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 296 BARS ANALYSED
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