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The God That Failed · Metallica

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove A -- Chorus
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0 / 39 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART N
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAINFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The God That Failed on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 4:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 1-100, toms through bars 101-103, hi-hat through bars 104-107 and toms through bars 108-109.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 10 and 14-15, and 8 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 39, 58, 71, 78, 83 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- A, I -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-40 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-75 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The God That Failed?

83 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 God That Failed hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 God That Failed?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 39, 58, 71, 78, 83 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED