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.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

125 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

155

LENGTH

4:54

DIFFICULTY

58/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-11, toms through bars 12-28, snare through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40 and snare through bars 41-47, and 8 more changes after that.

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
SD |x-------x-------|
FT |--x-x-x---x-x-x-|
BD |--x-x-x---x-x-x-|
HF |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

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

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
6. Bars 39-81 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus 5 and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
8. Bars 92-111 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.