Through The Never · Metallica

192 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:50 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-44, 46-48 and 58-61, and 6 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
THROUGH THE NEVER · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 53, 72, 73, 96, 100, 107 and 8 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

192 bars across 15 sections: 143 keep time, 14 are fills, 15 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-28.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART H
PART T
PART V
OUTRO
8 groovesCGHVT+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Through The Never?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Through The Never hard to play on drums?

53 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Through The Never?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 53, 72, 73, 96, 100, 107 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED
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