xdxdxdxdxd · Fall Of God

125 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 83-84, 87-88 and 91-92, and 3 more places -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
XDXDXDXDXD · BAR 83
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 5, 12, 13, 20, 21 and 20 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 15 sections: 80 keep time, 26 are fills, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-108.

PART B
PART B
PART L
PART U
CHORUS
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesYBLAFU+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is xdxdxdxdxd?

130 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 xdxdxdxdxd hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 xdxdxdxdxd?

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 5, 12, 13, 20, 21 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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