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The Call Of Ktulu · Metallica

EXERCISE 24 OF 104
Groove R
126 / 268 BARS COVERED
0 / 104 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, PART AZ
PART A
CHORUS
PART AD
CHORUS 2
PART AZ
PART BE
PART BG
PART A
16 groovesFAADBGBE+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 27
LAND · 27
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 4
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Call Of Ktulu on drums

268 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 7:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
268
LENGTH
7:45
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-18, toms through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-84, ride through bars 85-108 and hi-hat through bars 109-156, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 25, and 43 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    23
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|
HH |----------------x-------x---------------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x-----------------------x-------------------------------x-------|
The Call Of Ktulu -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

27 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 19, 20, 24, 26, 28, 32 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 76 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 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BL -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BE -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Call Of Ktulu?

139 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Call Of Ktulu hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

268 bars, about 7:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 24 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The Call Of Ktulu?

27 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 19, 20, 24, 26, 28, 32 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 268 BARS ANALYSED