Absolute Zero · Stone Sour

133 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 50-56, and 1 more place -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
ABSOLUTE ZERO · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 29, 33, 40 and 18 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 11 sections: 73 keep time, 27 are fills and 23 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-16.

PART D
PART H
CHORUS
PART D
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJDHTR+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Absolute Zero?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Absolute Zero hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Absolute Zero?

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 29, 33, 40 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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