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Lars Ulrich

Metallica · Thrash precision, riff-locked arrangements, and relentless right-hand drive.

Ulrich built his vocabulary around locking to Metallica's riffs note-for-note, driving thrash tempos with galloping right-hand patterns, and composing long-form arrangements with tom-heavy fills and double kick.

  • Riff-locked arrangement drumming across long, evolving songs
  • Galloping right-hand eighth-note patterns at thrash tempo
  • Composed, tom-heavy fills that punctuate riff changes exactly

I've always been about the riff. The drums serve the riff, not the other way round.

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