Live In A Hole · Pantera

162 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5, 7-9 and 11-17, and 6 more places -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
LIVE IN A HOLE · BARS 7-8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 6, 10, 18, 52, 57, 58 and 24 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 24 sections: 85 keep time, 30 are fills, 9 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 119-126.

CHORUS
PART B
PART L
PART L
CHORUS 3
8 groovesDLJBP+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Live In A Hole?

120 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 Live In A Hole 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 16 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 Live In A Hole?

9 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 6, 10, 18, 52, 57, 58 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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