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Zan · Dir En Grey

EXERCISE 14 OF 54
Join Part D to Part G (bars 39-41)
100 / 154 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART G
CHORUS
PART D
PART G
PART D
PART J
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART J
PART D
10 groovesADJLU+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Zan on drums

154 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
79/100

hi-hat through bars 1-29, kick and crashes through bars 30-31, hi-hat through bars 32-73, toms through bars 74-89, hi-hat through bars 90-147 and kick and crashes through bars 148-151, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-28 and 98-104 -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |-----x-x-----x-x|
Zan -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 40, 41, 57, 73, 89, 105 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-69 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part J and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Zan?

165 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 Zan hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Zan?

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 40, 41, 57, 73, 89, 105 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED