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Zgon · Myslovitz

EXERCISE 17 OF 19
Join Chorus 2 to Break (bars 55-57)
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0 / 19 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, BREAK
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
BREAK
PART C
OUTRO
4 groovesHCS1S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Zgon on drums

86 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:18
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-56, silence through bars 57-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-86.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-27, 29 and 44-53, and 3 more places -- 41.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 28, 30, 54, 60, 80 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- H, C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Zgon?

150 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 Zgon hard to play on drums?

59 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 2:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Zgon?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 28, 30, 54, 60, 80 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED