25 Years · Pantera

204 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
6:48
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 152-159, 162-169 and 174-177, and 2 more places -- 21.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
25 YEARS · BARS 152-153
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28 and 28 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

204 bars across 22 sections: 128 keep time, 34 are fills, 12 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 175-204.

PART A
PART F
PART M
PART M
PART AC
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
10 groovesANMACPF+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 25 Years?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is 25 Years hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 6:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 25 Years?

17 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED
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