Groove Analysis: Lars Ulrich

From the February 2017 issue of DRUM! Lars Ulrich’s style is instantly recognizable, which few musicians are able to accomplish. In the song “Now That We’re Dead“ from ’Hardwired … To Self-Destruct,’ Ulrich provides a number of golden nuggets leading to the end of this seven-minute behemoth: a two-measure fill that emphasizes 1 and 3; Ulrich’s version of the “money beat” (bass drum on 1 and 3, snare on 2 and 4) with extremely sloshy hi-hats accented on each beat; and one-measure-long snare fills (sixteenths