13th floor · jade lyel

105 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:33 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 96% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-31, 33-55 and 57-71, and 1 more place -- 95.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 165 BPM
13TH FLOOR · BAR 9
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 4 sections: 95 keep time, 1 is a stop and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-104.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 13th floor?

165 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 13th floor hard to play on drums?

49 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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