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11 · Ka

11 · Ka
EXERCISE 28 OF 55
Join Part L to Part C (bars 63-65)
130 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, PART C
PART F
PART C
PART L
PART C
PART J
PART O
CHORUS
10 groovesTCJOF+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 11 on drums

177 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-24, hi-hat through bars 25-55, toms through bars 56-64, hi-hat through bars 65-84 and toms through bars 85-106, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 107-113, 115-121 and 123-129, and 4 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    108
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----xxx-x---xx|
11 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 8, 24, 44, 56, 76 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- T, C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-25 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 13-48 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-60 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 61-90 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 11?

140 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 11 hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 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, 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 11?

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 8, 24, 44, 56, 76 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED