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The Prince · Metallica

EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove H -- Part H
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PART C
PART H
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART H
OUTRO
7 groovesLHECR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Prince on drums

179 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 4:19 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
95/100

hi-hat through bars 1-27, snare through bars 28-36, silence through bars 37-38, snare through bars 39-59, hi-hat through bars 60-68 and snare through bars 69-89, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-34, 54 and 80, and 7 more places -- 19.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    28
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |g-----x-----g-----x-----g-----x-----g-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
The Prince -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 13 and 119.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Prince?

166 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 Prince hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 18 sittings, about 23 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 Prince?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 13 and 119.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED