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Throes Of Rejection · Pantera

EXERCISE 3 OF 52
Groove M -- Part M (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 52 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, PART X, OUTRO
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART E
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesIMEACC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Throes Of Rejection on drums

160 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
72/100

toms through bars 2-25, hi-hat through bars 26-42, snare through bars 43-45, toms through bars 46-62, hi-hat through bars 63-66 and toms through bars 67-70, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-8 and 11-13, and 11 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    3
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
T2 |x--------x-----x-----x--------x-----------x-----|
FT |x-----x-----x-----------x-----x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
Throes Of Rejection -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 42, 46, 54 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-43 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-71 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 69-106 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Throes Of Rejection?

138 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 Throes Of Rejection hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 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 Throes Of Rejection?

8 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 42, 46, 54 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED