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The House Jack Built · Metallica

EXERCISE 3 OF 63
Groove M (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The House Jack Built on drums

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.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
6:09
DIFFICULTY
50/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-19, hi-hat through bars 20-47, kick and crashes through bars 48-53, snare through bars 54-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-117, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
The House Jack Built -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- F, B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M (a two-bar phrase) -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-127 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-78 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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