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Questions (Xentrix Cover) · Frontline

EXERCISE 4 OF 95
Groove F -- Part F
86 / 284 BARS COVERED
0 / 95 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S3, PART F, PART AH
PART S3
PART F
PART M
PART O
PART AH
PART BK
CHORUS
PART BZ
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
18 groovesBTAEBKCDAT+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 5
JOIN · 20
LINK · 14
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Questions (Xentrix Cover) on drums

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.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
284
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-6, toms through bars 7-9, hi-hat through bars 10-94, ride through bars 95-102 and hi-hat through bars 103-134, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    185
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Questions (Xentrix Cover) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 83 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 -- BT -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BK, AE -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-79 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 11-28 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 44-63 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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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