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The Zoo · Scorpions

EXERCISE 10 OF 41
Join Part D to Chorus 2 (bars 35-37)
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0 / 41 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART F
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
8 groovesCDJFE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Zoo on drums

147 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-28, snare through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44 and snare through bars 45-52, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-28, 37-44 and 73-81, and 1 more place -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
The Zoo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 52, 89, 142 and 146.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, D -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-32 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-54 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 72-110 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Zoo?

110 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 The Zoo hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 The Zoo?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 52, 89, 142 and 146.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED