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The House That Jack Built · Metallica

EXERCISE 31 OF 62
Fill at bar 74, 78, 86 and 3 more (a small one)
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PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART W
CHORUS 3
PART S12
PART R
OUTRO
9 groovesJBRIW+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The House That Jack Built on drums

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.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
6:27
DIFFICULTY
40/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-52, kick and crashes through bars 53-54, snare through bars 55-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-120, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- J -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-113 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-63 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part R and Part W -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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