To Live Is To Die · Metallica

251 bars, 16:30, at 54 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
54 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
251
LENGTH
16:30
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 18 and 20, and 29 more places -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 54 BPM
TO LIVE IS TO DIE · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

30 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 12, 14, 15, 27, 31, 35 and 37 more.

LOOP · 54 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 54 BPM
BARS 14-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 54 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 54 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

26 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

251 bars across 24 sections: 66 keep time, 43 are fills, 102 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 189-197.

CHORUS 5
PART AG
BREAK
PART AR
PART BD
OUTRO 2
14 groovesFARUAGL+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is To Live Is To Die?

54 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 To Live Is To Die hard to play on drums?

63 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

251 bars, about 16:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 79 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in To Live Is To Die?

30 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 12, 14, 15, 27, 31, 35 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 251 BARS ANALYSED
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