Domination · Pantera

162 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 27-29, and 8 more places -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
DOMINATION · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 18 and 27 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 6-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 15 sections: 104 keep time, 35 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 141-153.

PART C
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART Z
PART AF
OUTRO
8 groovesKZHRC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Domination?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Domination hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 17 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 Domination?

14 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 18 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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