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Zeitgeist · Alex D.

Zeitgeist · Alex D.
EXERCISE 32 OF 39
Fill at bar 77 (a small one)
82 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART C
CHORUS
PART K
PART J
PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesGBJRC+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Zeitgeist on drums

88 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 2:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:01
DIFFICULTY
61/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, ride through bars 10-11, snare through bars 12-13, ride through bars 14-18 and snare through bars 19-34, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 27-30, and 4 more places -- 20% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
Zeitgeist -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 59, 63, 77 and 88.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- J, B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-33 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-52 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-65 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Zeitgeist?

175 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 Zeitgeist hard to play on drums?

61 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 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 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 Zeitgeist?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 59, 63, 77 and 88.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED