Zero · Smashing Pumpkins

85 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 2:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 19 more places -- 30.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 128 BPM
ZERO · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 14, 18, 21, 22, 23, 27 and 11 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 21-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 68-69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 10 sections: 49 keep time, 17 are fills, 4 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-11.

PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBECPJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Zero?

128 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 hard to play on drums?

56 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 14, 18, 21, 22, 23, 27 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED
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