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Zomby Woof · Frank Zappa

EXERCISE 5 OF 45
Groove F
58 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART G
PART L
PART S
PART X
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesABGAIACX+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Zomby Woof on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 5:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bar 1, toms through bars 2-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, toms through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-25 and toms through bars 26-29, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56-91 -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    57
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
RD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------x-------x-----------------------|
Zomby Woof -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 14, 15, 55 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- AB, S -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part G and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-33 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through Part S -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 42-56 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Zomby Woof?

88 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Zomby Woof hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

114 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Zomby Woof?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 14, 15, 55 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED