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.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

89 BPM

TIME

6/4

BARS

154

LENGTH

8:55

DIFFICULTY

63/100

ride through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-26, hi-hat through bars 27-41, snare through bars 42-50, hi-hat through bars 51-54 and ride through bars 55-66, and 7 more changes after that.

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.

    28
    1...........2...........3...........4...........5...........6...........
HH |o-----------------o-----------------o-----------------o-----------------|
SD |------------------x-----------------------------------x-----------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------------------x-----------x-----------------------|

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

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- I, R -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
4. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
5. Bars 5-19 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
6. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
8. Bars 19-45 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
9. and 9 more sittings after that.