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XA0C · ikmirage

XA0C · ikmirage
EXERCISE 14 OF 64
Run D1 · Chorus (bars 1-16)
42 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 5
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play XA0C on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-16, toms through bars 17-18, silence through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-22 and silence through bars 23-24, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    95
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o-x-x-o-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x-----------|
XA0C -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- AF -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-19 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Break 3 and the Break 4 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part K -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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