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Zenith · Bleed From Within

EXERCISE 11 OF 72
2-bar fill at bar 23
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0 / 72 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART I
PART M
PART U
PART AB
PART AO
BREAK 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesZIMABAW+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Zenith on drums

208 bars at 193 BPM -- fast, and 4:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
193 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-8, snare through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-38, snare through bars 39-40 and ride through bars 41-46, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-30 and 33-35, and 3 more places -- 8.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Zenith -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 46 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- M, I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AW -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part I and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and Part U -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 60-72 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Zenith?

193 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 Zenith hard to play on drums?

52 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

208 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 Zenith?

14 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 208 BARS ANALYSED