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Through Zero · Elder

EXERCISE 34 OF 84
Join Part AC to Part AE (bars 80-82)
146 / 343 BARS COVERED
0 / 84 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AC, PART AE
PART D
PART S5
PART AC
PART AE
PART AF
PART BG
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK 2
18 groovesS20BKBGDAL+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 5
JOIN · 16
LINK · 5
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Through Zero on drums

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.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
343
LENGTH
8:53
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-16, hi-hat through bars 17-27, snare through bars 28-36, toms through bars 37-39 and snare through bars 40-44, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    199
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-----x-----|
BD |x---x-----x---------|
Through Zero -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- BK, BG -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-50 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 36-54 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part AC and Part AE -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 80-97 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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