Fucking Hostile · Pantera

127 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 2:42 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-5, 7-10 and 12-15, and 11 more places -- 45.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 188 BPM
FUCKING HOSTILE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 22, 38, 59, 75, 86, 93 and 6 more.

LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76
LOOP · 188 BPM
BARS 93-94 · LANDS ON BAR 95 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 11 sections: 104 keep time, 12 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-21.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBES1S3S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fucking Hostile?

188 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Fucking Hostile hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Fucking Hostile?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 22, 38, 59, 75, 86, 93 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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