Zombie Ritual · Death

172 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 7:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
7:04
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25-39, and 6 more places -- 26.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 97 BPM
ZOMBIE RITUAL · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 20, 24, 40 and 43 more.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

172 bars across 16 sections: 103 keep time, 49 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-39.

CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART M
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIPMYO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Zombie Ritual?

97 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 Zombie Ritual hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 7:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 Zombie Ritual?

20 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 20, 24, 40 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED
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