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X-Ray Mind · Mad Season

EXERCISE 7 OF 63
Groove B -- Part B
90 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play X-Ray Mind on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
70/100

toms through bars 3-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, toms through bars 42-51, ride through bars 52-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-71, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    26                                               27
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------------x-----------|------g-----x-----------------------------------|
X-Ray Mind -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- H, E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 3-73 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-83 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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