Astro Zombies · Misfits

58 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PunkMetalcore / Hardcore90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
2:07
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4-52 and 54 -- 87.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
ASTRO ZOMBIES · BAR 5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 56.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

58 bars: 55 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-55.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Astro Zombies?

110 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 Astro Zombies hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

58 bars, about 2:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 3 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Astro Zombies?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 56.

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