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Zombie - The Cranberries · Jokker

EXERCISE 20 OF 31
Run D1 · Part D (bars 69-73)
99 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART E
CHORUS
PART D
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFJDEL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Zombie - The Cranberries on drums

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

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
5:57
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-97, snare through bars 98-101 and hi-hat through bars 102-108.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 22-24, 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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
T1 |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Zombie - The Cranberries -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 33, 65, 73, 77, 81 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 69-97 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 96-102 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Zombie - The Cranberries?

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 - The Cranberries hard to play on drums?

41 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 5:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 - The Cranberries?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 33, 65, 73, 77, 81 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED