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Mile Zero · Periphery

EXERCISE 1 OF 63
Groove L -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART E
PART D
CHORUS
PART S
PART S7
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLS7ACSD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mile Zero on drums

183 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 5:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

56 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
183
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, snare through bars 42-67, hi-hat through bars 68-69 and snare through bars 70-73, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 43-44, 47-48 and 51-52, and 11 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    43               44
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--x---------x---|
BD |--xx-xx-----xxxx|xx----xx-xx-----|
Mile Zero -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 15, 23, 25, 39, 42, 45 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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, AC -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mile 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 Mile Zero hard to play on drums?

56 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Mile Zero?

15 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 15, 23, 25, 39, 42, 45 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED