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Metal drum pattern

Heavy and precise; tight palm-muted riffs. Here are its drums on a step grid, at the tempo it starts at, to hear and to change.

160 BPM · Live kit · 1 bar

The pattern, step by step

Each step is a sixteenth note, four to a beat: step 1 is beat 1, 5 is beat 2, 9 is beat 3 and 13 is beat 4. A lit square is a hit; a fainter one is played softer.

  • Hit
  • Softer hit
The metal drum pattern: the steps each drum plays
DrumSteps
Crash1
Closed hat3 (soft), 5, 7 (soft), 9, 11 (soft), 13, 15 (soft)
Snare5, 13
Kick1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
Open these drums in the editor

They open as one drum lane on a step grid, at 160 BPM. No account needed to start.

How metal drums go

Double-kick sixteenths, a hard snare on 2 and 4 (or blast beats), crash accents.

The bass, chords and sounds are on the Metal page.

Questions about metal drums

What BPM is metal?

Usually 100 to 200 BPM. This pattern plays at 160 BPM.

How do you make a metal drum pattern?

Start with the kick on every step, the snare on steps 5 and 13, the closed hi-hat on steps 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 15 and the crash on step 1. Each step is a sixteenth note, four to a beat: step 1 is beat 1, 5 is beat 2, 9 is beat 3 and 13 is beat 4. Open it in the free editor to change any step.

Do metal drums swing?

No: every hit lands straight on the grid. The editor’s Steps view can add swing if you want the groove to bounce.

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