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Zero · Smashing Pumpkins

EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 25 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Zero on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
56/100

ride through bars 3-14, hi-hat through bars 15-23, ride through bars 24-35, toms through bars 36-40, ride through bars 41-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-61, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Zero -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- B, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-54 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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