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· Simplified drum grooves in the style of famous songs — not exact transcriptions.
Metal drumming asks for power and endurance: driving 8ths, thrash beats, half-time breakdowns and double bass. Start slowly and keep it even.
The style in numbers (from our 10 grooves)
- Tempo range
- 76–212 BPM
- Typical tempo
- 125 BPM
- Most common groove
- half-time groove (3/10)
- Grooves with ghost notes
- 0%
- Shuffle or triplet feel
- 0%
- Time signatures
- 4/4
Metal songs
- Crazy Train Ozzy Osbourne · 138 BPM
- Enter Sandman Metallica · 123 BPM
- Master of Puppets Metallica · 212 BPM
- Paranoid Black Sabbath · 164 BPM
- Iron Man Black Sabbath · 76 BPM
- Painkiller Judas Priest · 206 BPM
- Du hast Rammstein · 125 BPM
- Sonne Rammstein · 84 BPM
- Amerika Rammstein · 102 BPM
- Roots Bloody Roots Sepultura · 90 BPM
Typical metal drum patterns
The grooves most songs in this genre are built on. Learn these and the rest are small variations.
half-time groove · Easy
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metal 8th-note beat · Easy
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driving rock beat · Easy
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