Use My Third Arm · Pantera

136 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 10 and 12, and 14 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
USE MY THIRD ARM · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 16, 20, 22 and 12 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 2-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 17 sections: 96 keep time, 18 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-103.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART T
PART Z
CHORUS 4
PART R
PART AD
10 groovesDZIRL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Use My Third Arm?

120 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 Use My Third Arm hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 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 Use My Third Arm?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 16, 20, 22 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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