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A New Level · Pantera

EXERCISE 10 OF 56
Groove H
73 / 142 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART Q
PART U
PART AB
OUTRO
7 groovesCUIKQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A New Level on drums

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
77/100

toms through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-22, snare through bars 23-31, hi-hat through bars 32-44 and ride through bars 45-52, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    4
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------|
A New Level -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 52-69 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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