Zto · Devin Townsend

40 bars at 208 BPM -- fast, and 0:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, mid tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetal150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
208 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
40
LENGTH
0:46
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 10-12 and 35-37 -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 208 BPM
ZTO · BARS 1-2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

40 bars across 2 sections: 34 keep time and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-22.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Zto?

208 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 Zto hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

40 bars, about 0:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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