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Zero The Hero · Black Sabbath

EXERCISE 4 OF 65
Groove C
46 / 147 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Zero The Hero on drums

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.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
7:16
DIFFICULTY
85/100

The time is kept on the ride the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    27
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
RD |------x--g--x-----x--g--x--g--x--g--x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x--x--------------------|
HF |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
Zero The Hero -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- N -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 1-65 -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 18-49 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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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