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Absolute Zero · Stone Sour

EXERCISE 9 OF 49
Groove F
73 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Absolute Zero on drums

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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
55/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-33, ride through bars 34-40, snare through bars 41-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-65, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
Absolute Zero -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, O -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-53 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 82-94 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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