The End Of The Line · Metallica

204 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 7:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

106 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

204

LENGTH

7:36

DIFFICULTY

54/100

snare through bars 1-14, kick and crashes through bars 15-18, snare through bars 19-26, kick and crashes through bars 27-28, hi-hat through bars 29-41 and snare through bars 42-45, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-31, 33-35 and 37-39, and 9 more places -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x--x-x--|

12 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 14, 15, 22, 26, 32, 36 and 26 more.

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- N -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, F -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
3. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
4. Bars 5-144 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Bars 14-122 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
7. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
9. and 12 more sittings after that.