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Apocalypse Zombie · Fulci

EXERCISE 25 OF 35
Run K1 · Part K (bars 44-50)
79 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART A
CHORUS
PART F
PART K
PART F
PART L
CHORUS 2
6 groovesDAFIK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Apocalypse Zombie on drums

88 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:08
DIFFICULTY
67/100

ride through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-34, snare through bars 35-38, hi-hat through bars 39-54, snare through bars 55-84 and hi-hat through bars 85-88.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-31 and 63-77 -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    63
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Apocalypse Zombie -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 34, 55, 80 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-43 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 44-56 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Apocalypse Zombie?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Apocalypse Zombie hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Apocalypse Zombie?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 34, 55, 80 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED