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Zombie Ritual · Death

EXERCISE 16 OF 70
Join Part D to Chorus (bars 15-17)
104 / 172 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS
PART D
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Zombie Ritual on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

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

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-40, ride through bars 41-48, toms through bars 49-56 and ride through bars 57-72, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Zombie Ritual -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-41 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part M and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part P -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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