13 · Ka

136 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 18 more places -- 28.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 128 BPM
13 · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 10, 13, 14 and 21 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 13-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 9 sections: 88 keep time, 27 are fills, 9 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-36.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART S5
VERSE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCFRPW+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 13?

128 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 13 hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 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 13?

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 10, 13, 14 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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