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To Live Is To Die (Standard D) · Metallica

EXERCISE 3 OF 103
Groove AE
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0 / 103 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 6, PART AM
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 30
LAND · 30
RUN · 5
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play To Live Is To Die (Standard D) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
56 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
241
LENGTH
15:14
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-41, snare through bars 42-48, hi-hat through bars 49-88 and snare through bars 89-93, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x---------------|
HH |------------------------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x-------------------x---|
To Live Is To Die (Standard D) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 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 -- D, S -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-27 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part S -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-61 -- 10 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and the Chorus 5 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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