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Ziltoidia Attaxx!!! · Devin Townsend

EXERCISE 13 OF 59
Groove J -- Part J
61 / 166 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART V
BREAK
10 groovesS14CDJS+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ziltoidia Attaxx!!! on drums

166 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 270 BPM, 3:41 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
270 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 3-9, snare through bars 10-18, toms through bars 19-22, hi-hat through bars 23-29, snare through bars 30-38 and toms through bars 39-40, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 11-13 and 15-17, and 4 more places -- 18.2% 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+a5e+a6e+a
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-x-x-x---x-x---x-x---x-|
Ziltoidia Attaxx!!! -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 18, 31, 33, 39, 40, 52 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, O -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-33 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 57-71 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ziltoidia Attaxx!!!?

270 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Ziltoidia Attaxx!!! hard to play on drums?

58 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Ziltoidia Attaxx!!!?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 18, 31, 33, 39, 40, 52 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED