12 · Ka

69 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 3:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-27, 39-45 and 57-68 -- 39.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 82 BPM
12 · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 18 and 15 more.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 7 sections: 42 keep time and 21 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-68.

PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesJFMDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 12?

82 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 12 hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 12?

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 18 and 15 more.

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