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Identity · X-Ray Spex

Identity · X-Ray Spex
EXERCISE 3 OF 12
Groove D -- Part D
51 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Identity on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:11
DIFFICULTY
62/100

snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-88.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---------------|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
HF |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Identity -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED