Thirteen · Recon

162 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 2:54 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 12-20 and 22-31, and 2 more places -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
THIRTEEN · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 43, 51, 59, 90, 94, 103 and 9 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 13 sections: 97 keep time, 15 are fills, 35 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-31.

PART C
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART V
PART AA
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesNAADTAU+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thirteen?

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

Is Thirteen hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Thirteen?

12 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 43, 51, 59, 90, 94, 103 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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