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IZ-US · Aphex Twin

IZ-US · Aphex Twin
EXERCISE 5 OF 12
Run D1 · Part D (bars 32-38)
68 / 82 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
7 groovesBDAS4S5+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play IZ-US on drums

82 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:44 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

26 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
26/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-38, silence through bars 39-40, snare through bars 41-72, silence through bars 73-74 and snare through bars 75-82.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-23, 27-28 and 30-31, and 6 more places -- 85.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x--xx-----|
IZ-US -- 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 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 32-72 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is IZ-US?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 IZ-US hard to play on drums?

26 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED