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The Metal · Tenacious D

EXERCISE 17 OF 37
Join Chorus to Part K (bars 21-23)
36 / 74 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART K
CHORUS
PART K
PART S5
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCS7S5KAA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Metal on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 2:39 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-20, snare through bars 21-24, toms through bars 25-26, snare through bars 27-30 and silence through bars 31-38, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 13 more places -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
RD |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----------|
SD |------------x--------x--------x-----x-----------|
T2 |---------------------------------------x--x--x--|
BD |x-----x--x-----x--------x--x-----x--------------|
The Metal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 21 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 23-49 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-71 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Metal?

112 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Metal hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, 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 Metal?

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 21 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED