13 Fingers · Acid Bath

176 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 151-155, 157-163 and 165-174 -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
13 FINGERS · BAR 151
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 57, 58 and 21 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 5-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 57-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 10 sections: 113 keep time, 27 are fills and 25 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-56.

PART A
CHORUS
PART M
PART R
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesHAOYMA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 13 Fingers?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is 13 Fingers hard to play on drums?

54 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 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 13 Fingers?

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 57, 58 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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