The Thing That Should Not Be · Metallica

187 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 6:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
6:29
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 44-46 and 48-50, and 4 more places -- 10.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 113 BPM
THE THING THAT SHOULD NOT BE · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 29 and 54 more.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BARS 18-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 12 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

187 bars across 18 sections: 89 keep time, 60 are fills, 13 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-9.

PART E
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART G
PART AG
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART G
OUTRO
9 groovesMGKEAA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Thing That Should Not Be?

113 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Thing That Should Not Be hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

187 bars, about 6:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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 Thing That Should Not Be?

17 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 29 and 54 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 187 BARS ANALYSED
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