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Cowboys From Hell · Pantera

EXERCISE 5 OF 45
Groove D
65 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cowboys From Hell on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
75/100

toms through bar 1, silence through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-32 and toms through bars 33-34, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-----x-----|
Cowboys From Hell -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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, I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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