The House That Jack Built · Metallica

156 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 6:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
6:27
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-35 and 37-39, and 12 more places -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 92 BPM
THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 32, 46 and 26 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 46-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 15 sections: 90 keep time, 32 are fills, 18 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-45.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART W
CHORUS 3
PART S12
PART R
OUTRO
9 groovesJBRIW+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The House That Jack Built?

92 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 That Jack Built hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 6:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 That Jack Built?

11 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 32, 46 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Metallica drum parts

EVERY METALLICA CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →