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The Frayed Ends Of Sanity · Metallica

EXERCISE 1 OF 107
Groove AP -- Chorus
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PART D
PART AK
PART AO
CHORUS
PART AO
PART AK
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART BH
PART AO
PART BL
12 groovesAPAKQABAO+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 4
JOIN · 17
LINK · 11
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Frayed Ends Of Sanity on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
265
LENGTH
8:47
DIFFICULTY
78/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-18, silence through bars 19-21, hi-hat through bars 22-118, toms through bars 119-123 and hi-hat through bars 124-248, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    127
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
The Frayed Ends Of Sanity -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 85 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 -- AP, AK -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AO -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part S2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part S2 -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part Q -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part S2 and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 21 more sittings after that.
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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