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The Outlaw Torn · Metallica

EXERCISE 14 OF 56
Groove G -- Part G
55 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, PART G, CHORUS 2
PART A
PART C
PART L
CHORUS
PART G
PART M
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesRMLJBZ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Outlaw Torn on drums

146 bars, 9:44, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
9:44
DIFFICULTY
78/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-34, snare through bars 35-41, hi-hat through bars 42-62 and snare through bars 63-64, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 27 and 53, and 1 more place -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    114
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
The Outlaw Torn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 24, 30, 34 and 47 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BZ -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part L -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Outlaw Torn?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Outlaw Torn hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 9:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 19 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Outlaw Torn?

8 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 24, 30, 34 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED