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The New Song · Metallica

EXERCISE 1 OF 87
Groove P -- Part P
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PART P
PART P
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART P
PART AG
PART P
CHORUS 4
PART P
CHORUS 5
BREAK 3
14 groovesUPAGLB+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 4
JOIN · 17
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The New Song on drums

289 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 12:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
289
LENGTH
12:33
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bar 1, toms through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-15, kick and crashes through bars 16-20, silence through bars 21-23 and snare through bars 24-31, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-41, 44-50 and 78-83, and 6 more places -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    145
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
The New Song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 23 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- P -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part S3 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The New Song?

92 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 New Song hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

289 bars, about 12:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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 New Song?

15 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 23 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 289 BARS ANALYSED