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Power Metal · Pantera

EXERCISE 20 OF 56
Join Chorus 2 to Part H (bars 36-38)
86 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART H
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Power Metal on drums

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.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
81/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-14, snare through bars 15-22, ride through bars 23-39, snare through bars 40-47 and ride through bars 48-64, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---xx|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Power Metal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-37 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-51 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part M -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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