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XO · Fall Out Boy

EXERCISE 13 OF 48
Fill at bar 23
76 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART H
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play XO on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-11, snare through bars 12-13, ride through bars 14-15, snare through bars 16-17, ride through bars 18-23 and snare through bars 24-39, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-g-x-x-x-g-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x----x--|
XO -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-33 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus 3 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 61-86 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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