Whiskey In The Jar · Metallica

167 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 5:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 18-24 and 26-32, and 15 more places -- 63.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 133 BPM
WHISKEY IN THE JAR · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 25, 33, 49, 51, 52, 53 and 22 more.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BARS 51-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 14 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

167 bars across 8 sections: 128 keep time, 28 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-24.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBCPIN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Whiskey In The Jar?

133 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 Whiskey In The Jar hard to play on drums?

58 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Whiskey In The Jar?

8 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 25, 33, 49, 51, 52, 53 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED
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