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Suicide Note, Pt. 2 · Pantera

EXERCISE 7 OF 37
Groove F (a two-bar phrase)
52 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
PART E
PART K
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO
11 groovesWEKDB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Suicide Note, Pt. 2 on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
72/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, ride through bars 10-18, hi-hat through bars 19-26, ride through bars 27-34 and toms through bars 35-51, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 79-81, 83-85 and 88-90, and 4 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    79
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Suicide Note, Pt. 2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 38 and 63.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- W, E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 19-36 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Suicide Note, Pt. 2?

115 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 Suicide Note, Pt. 2 hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Suicide Note, Pt. 2?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 38 and 63.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED