Thunder Kiss '65 (Album Version) · White Zombie

103 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 7 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 112 BPM
THUNDER KISS '65 (ALBUM VERSION) · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 and 20 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 9 sections: 59 keep time, 26 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-13.

PART C
CHORUS
PART M
PART Q
PART E
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGECLO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thunder Kiss '65 (Album Version)?

112 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 Thunder Kiss '65 (Album Version) hard to play on drums?

66 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?

103 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 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 Thunder Kiss '65 (Album Version)?

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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