Zero The Hero · Black Sabbath

147 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 7:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
7:16
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 26-27 and 29, and 9 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 81 BPM
ZERO THE HERO · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 18, 28, 30, 38, 44, 54 and 11 more.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 81 BPM
BARS 95-96 · LANDS ON BAR 97 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 16 sections: 103 keep time, 17 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-12.

CHORUS
PART H
PART N
PART W
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART AU
10 groovesDNFHAU+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Zero The Hero?

81 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Hero hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 7:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 24 sittings, about 23 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 The Hero?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 18, 28, 30, 38, 44, 54 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
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