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Zombie · The Cranberries

EXERCISE 38 OF 41
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 99-101)
102 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART N
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFCQNT+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Zombie on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
5:57
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-3 and hi-hat through bars 4-107.

The beat

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.

    13               14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |-xxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|xxxx-xxxxxxx-xo-|
T2 |----X-------X---|----X-------X---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|x-----x-x-x-----|
Zombie -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- F, C -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 77-92 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 95-101 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
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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