Floods · Pantera

192 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 6:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
6:31
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 21 more places -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 118 BPM
FLOODS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 33, 34, 50, 67, 68 and 16 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 67-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

192 bars across 15 sections: 93 keep time, 23 are fills, 47 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-90.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART S12
PART W
OUTRO 2
11 groovesIWTDR+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Floods?

118 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Floods hard to play on drums?

61 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 6:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 Floods?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 33, 34, 50, 67, 68 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED
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