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Welcome Home Sanitarium (Live) · Metallica

EXERCISE 1 OF 107
Groove J -- Part J
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0 / 107 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT
PART S3
PART J
PART Z
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART BA
PART BC
PART BI
PART BS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
17 groovesAGJCJBABS+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 4
JOIN · 17
LINK · 8
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Welcome Home Sanitarium (Live) on drums

196 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 7:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
196
LENGTH
7:56
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-18 and toms through bars 19-20, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-16, 18 and 21, and 9 more places -- 7.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|
HH |--------x-------x-------x---------------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x-----------------------x-------------------------------x-------|
Welcome Home Sanitarium (Live) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 10, 11, 13, 14, 19, 20 and 37 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 85 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BA, K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part S3 and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part J and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part N and Part Z -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part Z and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 45-71 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Welcome Home Sanitarium (Live)?

92 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Welcome Home Sanitarium (Live) hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

196 bars, about 7:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 24 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Welcome Home Sanitarium (Live)?

21 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 10, 11, 13, 14, 19, 20 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 196 BARS ANALYSED