Zombie Apocalypse · Mortician

103 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 2:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Metal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:11
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-6, 9 and 17-22, and 9 more places -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 188 BPM
ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 46.

LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 14 sections: 60 keep time, 1 is a fill, 30 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-45.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART F
PART H
PART F
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesADFEH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Zombie Apocalypse?

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 Zombie Apocalypse hard to play on drums?

55 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 2:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Zombie Apocalypse?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 46.

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