The House Jack Built · Metallica

151 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 6:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
6:09
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-26, 32-34 and 36-38, and 18 more places -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 98 BPM
THE HOUSE JACK BUILT · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 17, 18, 31, 47, 55, 71 and 24 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 10 sections: 84 keep time, 30 are fills and 23 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-70.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART R
PART X
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
8 groovesFHXRB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The House Jack Built?

98 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 House Jack Built hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 6:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 House Jack Built?

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 17, 18, 31, 47, 55, 71 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
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