To Live Is To Die (Standard D) · Metallica

241 bars, 15:14, at 56 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 BPM
TEMPO
56 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
241
LENGTH
15:14
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11, and 29 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 56 BPM
TO LIVE IS TO DIE (STANDARD D) · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

30 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 5, 6, 18, 22, 26, 28 and 34 more.

LOOP · 56 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 56 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 56 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 56 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

26 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

241 bars across 22 sections: 63 keep time, 40 are fills, 101 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 180-188.

CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
BREAK
PART AM
PART AW
OUTRO
13 groovesDAMSIAW+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is To Live Is To Die (Standard D)?

56 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 (Standard D) 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?

241 bars, about 15:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 16 sittings, about 30 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 (Standard D)?

30 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 5, 6, 18, 22, 26, 28 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 241 BARS ANALYSED
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