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Subject Zero · Veil Of Maya

EXERCISE 11 OF 63
Fill at bar 60
68 / 171 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART M
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
PART M
CHORUS
PART AA
PART AF
PART AJ
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesODBS1AJ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Subject Zero on drums

171 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 4:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
80/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-33, silence through bars 34-36, snare through bars 37-86, ride through bars 87-94 and snare through bars 95-103, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61-63, 65-67 and 69, and 12 more places -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    61
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-------x---x-------x-------x-------x-------x---|
Subject Zero -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 60, 68, 94, 106, 115, 125 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- O, B -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part M and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part M and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Subject Zero?

147 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 Subject Zero hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Subject Zero?

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 60, 68, 94, 106, 115, 125 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED