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Primal Concrete Sledge (D Standard) · Pantera

EXERCISE 11 OF 27
Run A1 · Chorus (bars 1-37)
56 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 37 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAGMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Primal Concrete Sledge (D Standard) on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
79/100

hi-hat through bars 1-23, kick and crashes through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-38, ride through bars 39-46, toms through bars 47-50 and ride through bars 51-58, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 7 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
T1 |------x-----------------x-----------------------|
T2 |---------------x-----------------x--------------|
FT |------------------------------------------x-----|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Primal Concrete Sledge (D Standard) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 24, 37, 42, 47, 48 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 38-64 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Primal Concrete Sledge (D Standard)?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Primal Concrete Sledge (D Standard) hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 Primal Concrete Sledge (D Standard)?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 24, 37, 42, 47, 48 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED