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Hollow · Pantera

EXERCISE 18 OF 57
Run D2 · Part D (bars 23-31)
93 / 172 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART C
PART D
PART G
PART B
PART D
PART G
PART S10
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesPGBDS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 10
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hollow on drums

172 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 96 BPM, 6:05 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
6:05
DIFFICULTY
77/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-90, silence through bars 91-105, hi-hat through bars 106-127, snare through bars 128-129 and hi-hat through bars 130-133, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 106-107, 109-110 and 112, and 2 more places -- 15.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    155
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------X---------------X-------|
BD |x-------------x-----x-----x-----|
Hollow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 25, 45, 47 and 22 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 -- P -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 1-26 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 39-89 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hollow?

96 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Hollow hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 6:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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 Hollow?

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 25, 45, 47 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED