The Mechanix · Metallica

247 bars at 204 BPM -- fast, and 4:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
204 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
247
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 18 and 20-21, and 38 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 204 BPM
THE MECHANIX · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 43, 44, 48, 49, 85, 86 and 11 more.

LOOP · 204 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 204 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 204 BPM
BARS 85-86 · LANDS ON BAR 87 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 204 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

247 bars across 24 sections: 184 keep time, 17 are fills, 16 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 192-222.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART G
OUTRO
14 groovesDGXBS14+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Mechanix?

204 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Mechanix hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

247 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Mechanix?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 43, 44, 48, 49, 85, 86 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 247 BARS ANALYSED
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