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The Thing That Should Not Be · Metallica

EXERCISE 3 OF 83
Groove G -- Part G
36 / 187 BARS COVERED
0 / 83 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT
PART E
CHORUS
PART K
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART G
PART AG
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesMGKEAA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 12
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Thing That Should Not Be on drums

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.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
6:29
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 2-21, toms through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-31, toms through bars 32-33, hi-hat through bars 34-39 and toms through bars 40-41, and 25 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
SD |--------x-------|
T1 |----------x-----|
T2 |----x-x-------x-|
FT |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-----x---------|
The Thing That Should Not Be -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- K, E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-22 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 20-30 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-30 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 41-54 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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