Drag The Waters · Pantera

155 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 9 more places -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
DRAG THE WATERS · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 20, 28, 52, 60, 64 and 5 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 91-92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 16 sections: 118 keep time, 11 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 132-154.

CHORUS
PART F
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART I
CHORUS 5
PART L
PART F
CHORUS 6
PART Q
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCFSIA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drag The Waters?

125 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 Drag The Waters hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in 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?

155 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Drag The Waters?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 20, 28, 52, 60, 64 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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