The Four Horsemen · Metallica

325 bars at 204 BPM -- fast, and 6:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
204 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
325
LENGTH
6:21
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 36 and 39, and 38 more places -- 13.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 204 BPM
THE FOUR HORSEMEN · BAR 117
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 44, 57, 64, 86, 99, 106 and 18 more.

LOOP · 204 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 204 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 204 BPM
BAR 115 · LANDS ON BAR 116
LOOP · 204 BPM
BAR 132 · LANDS ON BAR 133

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

325 bars across 26 sections: 205 keep time, 24 are fills, 55 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-34.

PART G
PART H
CHORUS
PART J
PART I
PART X
OUTRO
17 groovesMHXGJ+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Four Horsemen?

204 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Four Horsemen hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

325 bars, about 6:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 24 sittings, about 24 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 Four Horsemen?

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 44, 57, 64, 86, 99, 106 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 325 BARS ANALYSED
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