Description
Notes From John
BPM = 143 (eighth note), in 6/8 with bars of 3/8, and the tempo is marked “varies”. The Intro is written as rests, and the drums start at Verse 1, marked mf and “hi-hats loose”: hi-hat eighths, a dotted-quarter kick on one and the snare on four, written as a short figure plus repeats, with a sixteenth fill into the next verse. Verse 2 adds a “cresc.” before Verse 3. The Choruses are marked f, open on a crash and pass through a 3/8 bar, with hairpins on the fills that close them. The Instrumental at 3:03 is marked mf, with “cross-stick” on the snare line, then moves to syncopated kick notes and fills across the snare and toms. The Solo at 4:55 is marked ff, with sixteenth fills across the toms and a crash and kick as the part’s last note. The section boxes carry the record’s timestamps.
For the player
Lars Ulrich plays drums on the track. Put the snare on four of the 6/8: in the verses the kick takes one and the snare takes four, under hi-hat eighths. Read the 3/8 bars in the Choruses as written, and play the “cross-stick” and “rim” markings in the Instrumental and the second Chorus. At BPM = 143 the job is the feel.
Drums Sheet Music for “Nothing Else Matters” by Metallica.
