The Frayed Ends Of Sanity · Metallica

265 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 8:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
265
LENGTH
8:47
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 105, 107 and 109, and 21 more places -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 116 BPM
THE FRAYED ENDS OF SANITY · BAR 127
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 9, 13, 15, 17, 21, 22 and 46 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 21-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

265 bars across 22 sections: 162 keep time, 53 are fills, 19 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 126-144.

PART D
PART AK
PART AO
CHORUS
PART Q
PART BH
12 groovesAPAKQABAO+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Frayed Ends Of Sanity?

116 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 Frayed Ends Of Sanity hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

265 bars, about 8:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 29 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Frayed Ends Of Sanity?

21 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 9, 13, 15, 17, 21, 22 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 265 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Metallica drum parts

EVERY METALLICA CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →