XO · Fall Out Boy

114 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-13, 16-17 and 24-31, and 5 more places -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 131 BPM
XO · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 14, 15, 18, 19, 23, 32 and 16 more.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BARS 14-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 10 sections: 66 keep time, 22 are fills, 3 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-31.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDHMS1S9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is XO?

131 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 XO hard to play on drums?

64 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 XO?

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 14, 15, 18, 19, 23, 32 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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