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.

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

TEMPO

120 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

162

LENGTH

5:09

DIFFICULTY

51/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, snare through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-36, ride through bars 37-40 and kick and crashes through bars 41-44, and 22 more changes after that.

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.

    7                8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|------------x---|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x-------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x--x-x--x-|x--x--x-xxxx--x-|

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

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- L, P -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
3. Bars 1-54 -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Through Part L and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
7. Through Part P and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
8. Through Part P and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
9. and 8 more sittings after that.