Xanth ahh · Abylith

231 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 90 BPM, 7:56 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
231
LENGTH
7:56
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 136-138, 140-142 and 144-146, and 4 more places -- 10% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
XANTH AHH · BARS 136-137
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 64 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 1-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 14 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 21-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 19 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

250 bars across 26 sections: 107 keep time, 70 are fills, 13 are stops and 40 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 111-125.

PART K
PART L
PART AY
CHORUS
PART BR
CHORUS 2
PART BY
OUTRO
BREAK 7
21 groovesBMS26ADLBR+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Xanth ahh?

90 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Xanth ahh hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

231 bars, about 7:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 27 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Xanth ahh?

19 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 64 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 231 BARS ANALYSED
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