A New Level · Pantera

142 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 11-12 and 15-17, and 5 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 137 BPM
A NEW LEVEL · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 14, 43, 44 and 16 more.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 10 sections: 98 keep time, 23 are fills, 8 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-39.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART Q
PART U
OUTRO
7 groovesCUIKQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A New Level?

137 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 A New Level hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 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 A New Level?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 14, 43, 44 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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