X-Ray Mind · Mad Season

164 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 5:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-40, 56-63 and 96-110 -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 129 BPM
X-RAY MIND · BARS 26-27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 17, 41, 51, 55, 71, 79 and 13 more.

LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 15 sections: 102 keep time, 19 are fills, 25 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-16.

PART B
PART H
PART K
PART H
PART N
CHORUS
PART H
PART N
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
8 groovesEHNBK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is X-Ray Mind?

129 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 X-Ray Mind hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 X-Ray Mind?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 17, 41, 51, 55, 71, 79 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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