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The Underground In America · Pantera

EXERCISE 1 OF 55
Groove I -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART R
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesIRHS18F+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 1
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Underground In America on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 5:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
77/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-12, toms through bars 13-17, ride through bars 18-24, snare through bars 25-30 and toms through bars 31-36, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24 and 37-43 -- 13.3% 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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    1...............2...............3...............4...............
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
BD |----x---x---x---------------x-------x-------x---------------x---|
The Underground In America -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 36, 57, 58, 63, 64, 69 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 12-18 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Underground In America?

92 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 The Underground In America hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 18 sittings, about 23 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 Underground In America?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 36, 57, 58, 63, 64, 69 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED