Zombie · The Cranberries

107 bars, 5:57, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndiePopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
5:57
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-27, and 5 more places -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 72 BPM
ZOMBIE · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 32, 36, 39 and 12 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 12 sections: 76 keep time, 18 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-31.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART N
PART Q
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFCQNT+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Zombie?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Zombie hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 5:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 32, 36, 39 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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