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X-Ray Visions · Clutch

EXERCISE 15 OF 55
Groove L
114 / 163 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART H, PART G
PART C
CHORUS
PART J
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART H
PART G
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIWCHG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 11
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play X-Ray Visions on drums

163 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 3:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
63/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-9, snare through bars 10-11, hi-hat through bars 12-18, snare through bars 19-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-53, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-21, 24-25 and 27-29, and 8 more places -- 18.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x-g-|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|
X-Ray Visions -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 2, 10, 11, 18, 19, 35 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- I, C -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-100 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-37 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 48-79 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 75-99 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is X-Ray Visions?

178 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 X-Ray Visions hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Visions?

8 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 2, 10, 11, 18, 19, 35 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED