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Zombified · Falling In Reverse

EXERCISE 31 OF 51
Join Part K to Chorus 2 (bars 94-96)
88 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesGXHKD+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Zombified on drums

164 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 3:36 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bars 1-16, silence through bars 17-19, snare through bars 20-24, silence through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-39, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34, 36 and 38, and 5 more places -- 5.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------X-------|
BD |----x-----x---x-|
Zombified -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 53, 55, 60, 87, 88 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- K, N (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 12-54 -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-31 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-46 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-89 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part X -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Zombified?

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

Is Zombified hard to play on drums?

51 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Zombified?

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 53, 55, 60, 87, 88 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED