Hard Lines Sunken Cheeks · Pantera

191 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 8:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
8:41
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 25 more places -- 17.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 86 BPM
HARD LINES SUNKEN CHEEKS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 25, 26, 30 and 36 more.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

191 bars across 17 sections: 42 keep time, 42 are fills, 81 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 95-99.

PART S2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBCLJR+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hard Lines Sunken Cheeks?

86 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 Hard Lines Sunken Cheeks hard to play on drums?

51 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 8:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 10 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Hard Lines Sunken Cheeks?

17 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 25, 26, 30 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED
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