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Wherever I May Roam (Black Album) · Metallica

EXERCISE 19 OF 82
Groove J
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COUNT-IN
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART G
PART I
8 groovesMGICS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wherever I May Roam (Black Album) on drums

217 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 7:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
7:17
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-36, toms through bars 37-62, hi-hat through bars 63-84, toms through bars 85-106 and hi-hat through bars 107-146, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-43, 46-59 and 86-87, and 2 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------x-------|
T1 |------------x---|
T2 |x---x-x-------x-|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-------------x-|
Wherever I May Roam (Black Album) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 13, 22, 44, 60, 61, 62 and 41 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- M, H -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-66 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 28-180 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-36 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 71-110 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Wherever I May Roam (Black Album)?

118 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Wherever I May Roam (Black Album) hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

217 bars, about 7:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Wherever I May Roam (Black Album)?

23 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 13, 22, 44, 60, 61, 62 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 217 BARS ANALYSED