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The Art Of Shredding · Pantera

EXERCISE 31 OF 98
Groove P -- Part P
107 / 219 BARS COVERED
0 / 98 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT
PART B
PART P
PART Q
PART O
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART AG
PART AK
PART AM
OUTRO
17 groovesXAGBAMO+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 5
JOIN · 19
LINK · 6
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Art Of Shredding on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
219
LENGTH
5:47
DIFFICULTY
55/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-21, ride through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-29, ride through bars 30-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-35, and 29 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
The Art Of Shredding -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 81 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG, X -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-38 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-55 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-69 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 49-58 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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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