Thunder Kiss 65 · White Zombie

106 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalElectronic90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 34-36, and 7 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 116 BPM
THUNDER KISS 65 · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 17, 33, 47, 54, 55 and 7 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 54-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 13 sections: 70 keep time, 13 are fills, 9 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-16.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART R
CHORUS 4
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGCKTR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thunder Kiss 65?

116 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 hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 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?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 17, 33, 47, 54, 55 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other White Zombie drum parts

EVERY WHITE ZOMBIE CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →