The Art Of Shredding · Pantera

219 bars of 4/4 at 151 BPM, about 5:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
219
LENGTH
5:47
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 9 more places -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 151 BPM
THE ART OF SHREDDING · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 21, 25 and 25 more.

LOOP · 151 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 151 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 151 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 151 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

219 bars across 25 sections: 147 keep time, 32 are fills, 3 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 176-191.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AG
PART AK
PART AM
OUTRO
17 groovesXAGBAMO+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Art Of Shredding?

151 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 The Art Of Shredding hard to play on drums?

55 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

219 bars, about 5:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 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 The Art Of Shredding?

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 21, 25 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 219 BARS ANALYSED
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