Cowboys From Hell · Pantera

117 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 21, and 10 more places -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 115 BPM
COWBOYS FROM HELL · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 20, 32, 33, 34, 36, 46 and 11 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 32-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 11 sections: 74 keep time, 17 are fills, 4 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-85.

PART S1
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART Q
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCIRQS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cowboys From Hell?

115 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 Cowboys From Hell hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Cowboys From Hell?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 20, 32, 33, 34, 36, 46 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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