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13 Fingers · Acid Bath

EXERCISE 22 OF 57
Groove P -- Part P
106 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
PART A
CHORUS
PART M
PART P
PART R
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesHAOYMA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 13 Fingers on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
54/100

ride through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-10, snare through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-14 and snare through bars 15-16, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    151
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
HH |----x-------x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
13 Fingers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- AO, M -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E (a two-bar phrase) -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part P and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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