XA0C · ikmirage

119 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 94-97 and 100-104 -- 8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 123 BPM
XA0C · BAR 95
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 10 and 14 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 28-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 20 sections: 76 keep time, 20 are fills, 10 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-46.

CHORUS
PART K
PART P
PART T
PART V
PART W
PART Y
PART AF
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
20 groovesDAFALPY+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is XA0C?

123 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 XA0C hard to play on drums?

61 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 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 XA0C?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 10 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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