The Great Southern Trendkill · Pantera

131 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

118 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

131

LENGTH

4:18

DIFFICULTY

82/100

hi-hat through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-7, toms through bars 8-11, hi-hat through bars 12-13, toms through bars 14-15 and hi-hat through bars 16-17, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 64-65, 68-69 and 72-73, and 8 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    64                               65
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---g---x---g---x---g---x---g---|x---g---x---g---x---g---x---o---|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |--------x---x---------------x---|x-----------x---------------x---|

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 13, 17, 22, 24, 26, 28 and 7 more.

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- Q, AG -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
3. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
4. Through Part A and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
5. Through Part F and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
6. Bars 8-31 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Bars 31-64 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.