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xdxdxdxdxd · Fall Of God

EXERCISE 3 OF 58
Groove X -- Part X
33 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play xdxdxdxdxd on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
66/100

ride through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-11, ride through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-15 and snare through bars 16-17, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    83
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
xdxdxdxdxd -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 5, 12, 13, 20, 21 and 20 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 -- Y, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 14-40 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through the Break and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 45-57 -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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