Revolution Is My Name · Pantera

154 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 89 BPM, 8:55 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
8:55
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21 and 23, and 8 more places -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 89 BPM
REVOLUTION IS MY NAME · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 16, 26, 34, 42, 44 and 21 more.

LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 14 sections: 72 keep time, 28 are fills, 6 are stops and 34 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART AE
PART AJ
OUTRO 2
10 groovesIS14UOR+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Revolution Is My Name?

89 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Revolution Is My Name hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 8:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 17 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Revolution Is My Name?

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 16, 26, 34, 42, 44 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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