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Thirteen · Recon

Thirteen · Recon
EXERCISE 5 OF 72
Groove T -- Part T
38 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART AA, PART T
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thirteen on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 1-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-9, snare through bars 10-38, kick and crashes through bars 39-44, silence through bars 45-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-69, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6
    1...........2...........3...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------|
SD |x-----------------------------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Thirteen -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-48 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-52 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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