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Zero Degrees · Zero Degrees

Zero Degrees · Zero Degrees
EXERCISE 4 OF 52
Groove B -- Part B
19 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Zero Degrees on drums

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.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
73/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-41, silence through bars 42-54, hi-hat through bars 55-99 and ride through bars 100-107.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--X---X---X---X-|
BD |xx-xx--x-x--xx--|
Zero Degrees -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 6-19 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 16-22 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 18-42 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part J -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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