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13 Steps To Nowhere · Pantera

EXERCISE 10 OF 26
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-25)
71 / 142 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 25 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesS6EALFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 13 Steps To Nowhere on drums

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.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
260 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
50/100

toms through bars 1-25, ride through bars 26-41, kick and crashes through bars 42-46, toms through bars 47-63, ride through bars 64-79 and kick and crashes through bars 80-85, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------------------|
SD |------------x-----------|
T2 |--x---x---x---x---x---x-|
FT |----x---x-------x---x---|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
HF |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
13 Steps To Nowhere -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 43-90 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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