Mouth For War · Pantera

154 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 3:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 27-28, and 9 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 156 BPM
MOUTH FOR WAR · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 25, 41, 42 and 33 more.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BARS 41-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 18 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 11 sections: 100 keep time, 39 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-118.

PART A
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART Q
PART V
PART X
7 groovesHEQVX+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mouth For War?

156 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 Mouth For War hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 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 Mouth For War?

9 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 25, 41, 42 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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