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Zombies, March! (8 string) · GWAR

EXERCISE 33 OF 71
Groove Y
126 / 203 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Zombies, March! (8 string) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
203
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
71/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-46 and snare through bars 47-48, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    105
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------------------x-----|
Zombies, March! (8 string) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- G, E -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-36 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part M and Part S7 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part S7 and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 109-129 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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