Wherever I May Roam · Metallica

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.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
7:17
DIFFICULTY
39/100
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 23 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 118 BPM
WHEREVER I MAY ROAM · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 12, 21, 43, 58, 59, 60 and 43 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 58-61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 8 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 12 sections: 124 keep time, 49 are fills, 23 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-57.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFICS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wherever I May Roam?

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 hard to play on drums?

39 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 29 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 46 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 49 times: bars 12, 21, 43, 58, 59, 60 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 217 BARS ANALYSED
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