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12 · Ka

12 · Ka
EXERCISE 15 OF 34
Join Part F to Chorus (bars 18-20)
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0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 12 on drums

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.

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
100/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36 and ride through bars 37-69.

The beat

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.

    20
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|
RD |----x-x-x---x-x-----x-x-x---x-x-|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-xxxxxxx-xxxxxxx-xxxxxxx-xxxxxx|
12 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-20 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-57 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED