#1 Zero · Audioslave

88 bars, 4:45, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-15, 17-21 and 23, and 4 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 74 BPM
#1 ZERO · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 28, 32, 36, 50, 54 and 14 more.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 8 sections: 54 keep time, 20 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

PART B
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDSIBPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is #1 Zero?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is #1 Zero hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 #1 Zero?

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 28, 32, 36, 50, 54 and 14 more.

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