Z · The Warning

120 bars at 161 BPM -- fast, and 2:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
161 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-16, 45-51 and 81-95, and 1 more place -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 161 BPM
Z · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 40, 44, 52, 76, 104 and 120.

LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 12 sections: 78 keep time, 6 are fills and 24 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-94.

PART A
CHORUS
PART D
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBFNDH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Z?

161 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Z hard to play on drums?

48 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 7 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 Z?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 40, 44, 52, 76, 104 and 120.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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