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Thunder Kiss 65 · White Zombie

EXERCISE 32 OF 42
Groove T -- Outro 2
92 / 106 BARS COVERED
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thunder Kiss 65 on drums

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.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-19, ride through bars 20-25, hi-hat through bars 26-35, ride through bars 36-47 and kick and crashes through bars 48-53, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18                                               19
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------------------------x-----|x-----------------------------------------------|
RD |------------------------x-----x-----x-----------|------------------------------------------------|
SD |------------x--------------x--------x-----------|---------x--x--x--x-----------------------------|
T1 |------------------------------------------------|---------------------x--x--x--------------------|
T2 |------------------------------------------------|------------------------------x--x--x-----------|
FT |------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------x--x--x--|
BD |x-----------------------x-----x-----------x-----|x-----------------------------------------------|
Thunder Kiss 65 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- G, C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-44 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 60-79 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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