13 Steps To Nowhere · Pantera

142 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 260 BPM, 3:14 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
260 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 17-19, and 5 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 260 BPM
13 STEPS TO NOWHERE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 24, 25, 41 and 8 more.

LOOP · 260 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 260 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 260 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 260 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 6 sections: 64 keep time, 14 are fills, 13 are stops and 46 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-40.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesS6EALFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 13 Steps To Nowhere?

260 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is 13 Steps To Nowhere hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in 13 Steps To Nowhere?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 24, 25, 41 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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