Wherever I May Roam · Metallica

217 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 7:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
7:49
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-30, 32-34 and 62-63, and 26 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
WHEREVER I MAY ROAM · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 5, 12, 21, 43, 59, 60 and 42 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

217 bars across 15 sections: 123 keep time, 48 are fills, 30 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-58.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGKDS1S3+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wherever I May Roam?

110 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 hard to play on drums?

45 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

217 bars, about 7:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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?

24 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 5, 12, 21, 43, 59, 60 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 217 BARS ANALYSED
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