Zero Degrees · Zero Degrees

107 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 30-32, and 2 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
ZERO DEGREES · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 17, 21, 29 and 25 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 15 sections: 57 keep time, 31 are fills and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-94.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
BREAK
PART J
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesEAEBJU+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Zero Degrees?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Zero Degrees hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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 Zero Degrees?

10 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 17, 21, 29 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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