Primal Concrete Sledge · Pantera

76 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:09
DIFFICULTY
94/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, 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.

LOOP · 140 BPM
PRIMAL CONCRETE SLEDGE · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 29, 33 and 12 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 4 sections: 50 keep time, 18 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesANHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Primal Concrete Sledge?

140 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 hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 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?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 29, 33 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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