Back To Zero · SIXEN Oficial

139 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-39, 80-86 and 88-94, and 1 more place -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BACK TO ZERO · BARS 33-34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 24, 28, 40 and 23 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 19 sections: 79 keep time, 29 are fills, 10 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-23.

PART A
CHORUS
PART L
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART O
BREAK 5
12 groovesDLOHA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Back To Zero?

125 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 Back To Zero hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Back To Zero?

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 24, 28, 40 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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