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13 · Ka

13 · Ka
EXERCISE 25 OF 50
Run C2 · Chorus 2 (bars 47-72)
95 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 13 on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
68/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-40, toms through bars 41-42, hi-hat through bars 43-84, silence through bars 85-90 and hi-hat through bars 91-111, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xx----x-xx----|
13 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-61 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-112 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 93-115 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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