Questions (Xentrix Cover) · Frontline

284 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 4:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
284
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 185-200, 234-249 and 276-281 -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 240 BPM
QUESTIONS (XENTRIX COVER) · BAR 185
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 17, 18, 19 and 22 more.

LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 7-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 17-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

284 bars across 25 sections: 197 keep time, 30 are fills, 17 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 147-175.

PART M
PART O
PART BK
CHORUS
PART BZ
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
18 groovesBTAEBKCDAT+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Questions (Xentrix Cover)?

240 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 Questions (Xentrix Cover) hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

284 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 83 exercises over 23 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Questions (Xentrix Cover)?

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 17, 18, 19 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 284 BARS ANALYSED
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