Zombie · The Cranberries

107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 11 more places -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
ZOMBIE · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 12 sections: 85 keep time, 1 is a fill and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-31.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFCJNS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Zombie?

80 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 hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 5:21 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, hi-hat, snare, 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 Zombie?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.

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