ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Zavali Ebalo on drums

151 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO: 160 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 151
LENGTH: 3:46
DIFFICULTY: 74/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-12, snare through bars 13-26, kick and crashes through bars 27-28, hi-hat through bars 29-38 and toms through bars 39-40, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26, 43 and 47-48, and 7 more places -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    47                                               48
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------X-----------------------|------------------------X-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----------x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|

Zavali Ebalo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 22, 32, 34, 36, 39, 40 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AP -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
Through Part B and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Through Part M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part M and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
Through Part V and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
and 17 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Zavali Ebalo?

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

Is Zavali Ebalo hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 25 sittings, about 23 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 Zavali Ebalo?

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 22, 32, 34, 36, 39, 40 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED