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Zero Signal · Fear Factory

EXERCISE 13 OF 57
Groove F -- Part F
99 / 230 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART S2
PART B
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART U
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesHDUACB+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 11
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Zero Signal on drums

230 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 5:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
230
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-33, hi-hat through bars 34-65, ride through bars 66-73, hi-hat through bars 74-83 and ride through bars 84-85, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-36, 38-40 and 42-44, and 9 more places -- 16.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 33, 113, 165, 197, 213, 221 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, B -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 54-66 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Zero Signal?

182 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 Zero Signal hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

230 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Zero Signal?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 33, 113, 165, 197, 213, 221 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 230 BARS ANALYSED