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Floods · Pantera

EXERCISE 7 OF 59
Run A1 · Part A (bars 6-13)
66 / 192 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Floods on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
6:31
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-32, toms through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-42, ride through bars 43-66 and toms through bars 67-68, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
RD |------x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------X-----------|
BD |x--------x--------x-----|
Floods -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- C, I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 20-35 -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-69 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and the Break -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part S10 and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and Part S12 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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