The Judas Kiss · Metallica

358 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 14:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
358
LENGTH
14:49
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-50, 56-66 and 72-75, and 3 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 88 BPM
THE JUDAS KISS · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 6, 8, 29, 31, 33, 35 and 50 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

358 bars across 29 sections: 166 keep time, 60 are fills and 97 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 294-306.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
17 groovesOVKIT+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Judas Kiss?

88 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 Judas Kiss hard to play on drums?

49 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

358 bars, about 14:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 90 exercises over 21 sittings, about 28 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 Judas Kiss?

15 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 6, 8, 29, 31, 33, 35 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 358 BARS ANALYSED
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