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Year Zero · Ghost

EXERCISE 9 OF 39
Groove E
90 / 147 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE, VERSE 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
VERSE
PART H
VERSE 2
PART H
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDSHPB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Year Zero on drums

147 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-39, toms through bars 40-42, ride through bars 43-44, toms through bars 45-46 and ride through bars 47-48, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 9 more places -- 24.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Year Zero -- 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 16, 43, 44, 45, 52, 81 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- D, S -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Verse -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Verse and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Verse and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 40-90 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 88-123 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Year Zero?

122 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Year Zero hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Year Zero?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 43, 44, 45, 52, 81 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED