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Drag The Waters · Pantera

EXERCISE 18 OF 45
Join Part I to Chorus 3 (bars 39-41)
126 / 155 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drag The Waters on drums

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 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-|
Drag The Waters -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

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.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-81 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  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.
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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