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Patient Zero · Enterprise Earth, Not Documented

Patient Zero · Enterprise Earth, Not Documented
EXERCISE 1 OF 79
Groove I -- Part I
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
PART O
PART I
PART K
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesBIQS1K+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 3
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Patient Zero on drums

167 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-49, silence through bars 50-52, snare through bars 53-67, toms through bars 68-69 and snare through bars 70-95, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-59, 63-64 and 67, and 2 more places -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    53
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x--x-x-----x----x--x-x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----|
Patient Zero -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- I -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part S3 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Patient Zero?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Patient Zero hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Patient Zero?

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED