← SONGS

Piss · Pantera

EXERCISE 3 OF 39
Groove H
49 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART I, CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART B
PART O
PART R
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDBIMO+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Piss on drums

135 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 5:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 2-9, ride through bars 10-16, toms through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-42, toms through bars 43-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-48, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-16, 53-55 and 116, and 4 more places -- 18.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|-----------x--x-|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-----------|
SD |----x--x-x--xx--|----x---x-------|
T2 |----------------|------x---------|
FT |----------------|------xx--------|
BD |x-xxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxx-----x--x-|
Piss -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 5, 9, 43, 44, 48, 52 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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, I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 6-33 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-45 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-53 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 92-111 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Piss?

107 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 Piss hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Piss?

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 5, 9, 43, 44, 48, 52 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED