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Zombie · Yungblud

EXERCISE 8 OF 22
Run B1 · Part B (bars 3-9)
70 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCGHBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Zombie on drums

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 3-28, ride through bars 29-33, hi-hat through bars 34-54, ride through bars 55-69, hi-hat through bars 70-72 and ride through bars 73-79.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-15, 17-27 and 37-41, and 1 more place -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13               14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x--x-x--xx-x|
BD |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

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 28, 54 and 62.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- C, G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-58 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 28, 54 and 62.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED