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Thunder Kiss '65 (Album Version) · White Zombie

EXERCISE 17 OF 56
Fill at bar 20, 24, 36 and 3 more (a small one)
60 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART E, PART L
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thunder Kiss '65 (Album Version) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, ride through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-52, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------------------------------x-----------|
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------------------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x--------x-----x--x-----x-----------x-----|
Thunder Kiss '65 (Album Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 15-75 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 46-98 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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