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Zeitgeist · Incendiary

Zeitgeist · Incendiary
EXERCISE 7 OF 23
Groove E -- Part E
48 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Zeitgeist on drums

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.

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
36/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-30, kick and crashes through bars 31-32, toms through bars 33-46, kick and crashes through bars 47-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-81, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- B, K -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 43-74 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED