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TechNoZeN · Cout

EXERCISE 25 OF 27
Join Chorus to Break 2 (bars 74-76)
92 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, BREAK 2
PART B
PART H
PART K
CHORUS
BREAK 2
OUTRO
7 groovesOKRHB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play TechNoZeN on drums

96 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 1:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
1:45
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-44, hi-hat through bars 45-75, silence through bars 76-84 and snare through bars 85-96.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 45-74 -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    45                               46
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x-----------x---|
BD |x---x-------x-----------x---x---|----x---x-----------------------|
TechNoZeN -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 17, 29, 34, 39 and 44.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-10 -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is TechNoZeN?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is TechNoZeN hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 1:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 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 TechNoZeN?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 17, 29, 34, 39 and 44.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED