Through Zero · Elder

343 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 190 BPM, 8:53 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
343
LENGTH
8:53
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 199-227, 229-235 and 237-245 -- 18.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
THROUGH ZERO · BAR 199
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 7, 8, 18, 20, 30, 32 and 25 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

343 bars across 20 sections: 189 keep time, 31 are fills, 2 are stops and 100 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 198-227.

PART D
PART S5
PART AF
PART BG
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK 2
18 groovesS20BKBGDAL+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Through Zero?

190 BPM, in 5/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Through Zero hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

343 bars, about 8:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Through Zero?

14 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 7, 8, 18, 20, 30, 32 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 343 BARS ANALYSED
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