DRUMY
Welcome Home (Sanitarium) drums: tempo, difficulty and parts
Welcome Home (Sanitarium) by Metallica is 94 BPM and runs 6:22: 193 bars and 2,334 notes played on the kick, hi-hat, snare, crash, tom 2, tom 1, floor tom and ride.
The drum part is rated Hard — a real workout, so start it at half speed and bring it up.
It has 8 fills, its longest section is the Bridge (0:35) and the hi-hat opens as well as closes.
Song map
- Intro
- Main Riff
- Guitar Solo 1
- Verse 1
- Pre-Chorus
- Chorus
- Guitar Solo 2
- Verse 2
- Pre-Chorus
- Chorus
- Breakdown
- Breakdown Verse
- Main Solo
- Bridge
- Guitar Solo 4
- Outro
- Drum Outro
How to play Welcome Home (Sanitarium) on drums
- Plug in your electronic drum kit over USB — or play on the keyboard.
- Press play. The notes of Welcome Home (Sanitarium) come down in time with the recording. Play it in Beatfall or read it as drum notation.
- Slow it down. Take the Fill into Pre-Chorus at 0.5× or 0.75× with a click and a count-in, then bring it up to 94 BPM.
- Check every hit — on time, early or late — before you record your Welcome Home (Sanitarium) drum cover.
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