Zap · eric johnson

19 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 0:21 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
19
LENGTH
0:21
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 81% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-18 -- 81.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 210 BPM
ZAP · BAR 10
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 5.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

19 bars across 2 sections: 14 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-19.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Zap?

210 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 Zap hard to play on drums?

46 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

19 bars, about 0:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Zap?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 5.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 19 BARS ANALYSED
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