The Badge · Pantera

178 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 3:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
177 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 7 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 177 BPM
THE BADGE · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 17, 25, 29 and 50 more.

LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 177 BPM
BARS 33-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 11 sections: 104 keep time, 56 are fills, 8 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 135-152.

CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBAGMSH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Badge?

177 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Badge hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 The Badge?

14 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 17, 25, 29 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED
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