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Zoot Allures · Frank Zappa

EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove V -- Part V
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0 / 25 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART V, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART V
BREAK
OUTRO
6 groovesS4EVAO+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Zoot Allures on drums

90 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
46/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-34, silence through bars 35-79, snare through bars 80-81, hi-hat through bars 82-83 and snare through bars 84-87, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30, 34 and 83, and 1 more place -- 9.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    30
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |------------------------o-----------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
Zoot Allures -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 16 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- V, B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-35 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Zoot Allures?

116 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 Zoot Allures hard to play on drums?

46 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 Zoot Allures?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 16 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED