Power Metal · Pantera

135 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 18 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
POWER METAL · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 4, 8, 13, 14, 22, 31 and 19 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 13-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 15 sections: 79 keep time, 25 are fills, 15 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 95-102.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART M
CHORUS 4
PART S
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCHMSR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Power Metal?

140 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 Power Metal hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Power Metal?

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 4, 8, 13, 14, 22, 31 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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