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Domination · Pantera

EXERCISE 1 OF 68
Groove K -- Chorus
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PART C
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART Z
PART AF
OUTRO
8 groovesKZHRC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Domination on drums

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.

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

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

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-6, ride through bars 7-18, hi-hat through bars 19-38, ride through bars 39-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-54, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxx------------|
Domination -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- K -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 1-31 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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