Zeitgeist · Incendiary

115 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:33 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 25 and 52-54, and 8 more places -- 36.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
ZEITGEIST · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 67, 74, 75 and 83.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 74-75 · LANDS ON BAR 76 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 9 sections: 51 keep time, 4 are fills, 37 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-24.

COUNT-IN
PART A
PART E
PART F
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBKAS1E+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Zeitgeist?

180 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?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 4 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 67, 74, 75 and 83.

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