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Zetsubou Billy · MAXIMUM THE HORMON

Zetsubou Billy · MAXIMUM THE HORMON
EXERCISE 1 OF 70
Groove D -- Chorus
0 / 166 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART J
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART AA
PART AB
PART Z
PART AM
OUTRO
13 groovesDRJAAM+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 8
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Zetsubou Billy on drums

166 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 3:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
53/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-27, snare through bars 28-31, toms through bars 32-34, snare through bars 35-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-69, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 8-10 and 46-48, and 2 more places -- 9.2% 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 |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-x-----x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
Zetsubou Billy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 11, 19, 27, 32, 33, 34 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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, R -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-57 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 58-94 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Zetsubou Billy?

188 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 Zetsubou Billy hard to play on drums?

53 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Zetsubou Billy?

8 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 11, 19, 27, 32, 33, 34 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED