Zombies, March! (8 string) · GWAR

203 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 4:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
203
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 89-91, and 10 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
ZOMBIES, MARCH! (8 STRING) · BAR 105
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 7, 8, 32, 36, 40, 47 and 28 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 71-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

203 bars across 16 sections: 112 keep time, 36 are fills, 31 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-31.

PART S2
PART E
PART I
PART M
PART S7
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART AO
11 groovesGEAOIM+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Zombies, March! (8 string)?

195 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Zombies, March! (8 string) hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

203 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Zombies, March! (8 string)?

17 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 7, 8, 32, 36, 40, 47 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 203 BARS ANALYSED
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