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Panic Attack · Judas Priest

EXERCISE 26 OF 93
Groove N
160 / 260 BARS COVERED
0 / 93 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
PART H
CHORUS
PART X
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
15 groovesLHAKUX+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 15
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Panic Attack on drums

260 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 5:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
260
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-80, snare through bars 81-82, hi-hat through bars 83-106, snare through bars 107-108 and hi-hat through bars 109-110, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 63-77, 79-81 and 83-85, and 10 more places -- 32.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    64
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |----x-------x---x---x-------x---|
Panic Attack -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 31, 32, 78 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 78 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 -- L -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, AK -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-39 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Panic Attack?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Panic Attack hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

260 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 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 Panic Attack?

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 31, 32, 78 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 260 BARS ANALYSED