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Back To Zero · SIXEN Oficial

Back To Zero · SIXEN Oficial
EXERCISE 31 OF 49
Join Part H to Break 2 (bars 77-79)
107 / 148 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, BREAK 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART L
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART H
BREAK 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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Back To Zero on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
65/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-49, silence through bars 50-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-71, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33               34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-----x-|
BD |x-x-x-x---------|--x-x-----x-----|
Back To Zero -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 24, 28, 40 and 23 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 -- L, D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-40 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part S7 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 77-100 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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