Identity · X-Ray Spex

88 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:11 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Punk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:11
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-9 and 18-29, and 3 more places -- 55.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
IDENTITY · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 9 sections: 76 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-29.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Identity?

160 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 Identity hard to play on drums?

62 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

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