Becoming · Pantera

100 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 19-25 and 36-42, and 2 more places -- 36% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BECOMING · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 18, 51 and 100.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 100
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 12 sections: 78 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-9.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
PART F
PART H
PART F
OUTRO
5 groovesBFDHJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Becoming?

130 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 Becoming hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 10 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Becoming?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 18, 51 and 100.

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