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The Judas Kiss · Metallica

EXERCISE 37 OF 106
Groove W
246 / 358 BARS COVERED
0 / 106 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART V
CHORUS
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART V
17 groovesOVKIT+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 4
JOIN · 23
LINK · 14
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Judas Kiss on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
358
LENGTH
14:49
DIFFICULTY
49/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-19, hi-hat through bars 20-27, snare through bars 28-35, hi-hat through bars 36-75, snare through bars 76-79 and hi-hat through bars 80-92, and 28 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o---o---o---|
SD |x-------x---|
BD |--x---x---x-|
The Judas Kiss -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 90 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 -- O, V -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-261 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-29 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-105 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part V and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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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