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Zyglrox · Periphery

EXERCISE 21 OF 79
Groove S
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CHORUS
PART Y
PART AK
PART AV
PART BO
BREAK
PART CA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesAVHAKCAS11+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Zyglrox on drums

166 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
80/100

snare through bars 1-20, toms through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-25, snare through bars 26-110, silence through bars 111-157 and snare through bars 158-166.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 127-133, 135-138 and 140-141 -- 8.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    127
    1...............2...............3...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Zyglrox -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 5, 9, 11, 15, 18, 19 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- CA, H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- CD -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 4-10 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  8. Bars 10-43 -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Zyglrox?

125 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 Zyglrox hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 24 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Zyglrox?

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 5, 9, 11, 15, 18, 19 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED