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#1 Zero · Audioslave

EXERCISE 3 OF 49
Groove B -- Part B
28 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play #1 Zero on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
66/100

ride through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, ride through bars 41-46 and snare through bars 47-71, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13                               14
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-----------|x---------------x---x-----------|
#1 Zero -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- D, A -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part P -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-60 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED