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Becoming · Pantera

EXERCISE 19 OF 30
Groove H -- Part H (a two-bar phrase)
83 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Becoming on drums

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

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

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

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-67, snare through bars 68-69, hi-hat through bars 70-86, snare through bars 87-88 and hi-hat through bars 89-100.

The beat

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.

    5
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-x-x-x--x--x-x-x-x--x--x-x-x-------------|
Becoming -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-19 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-35 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-51 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part H and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED