Twelve/Seventeen · Bodysnatcher

110 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 14 and 18, and 8 more places -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
TWELVE/SEVENTEEN · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 2, 4, 17, 38, 39, 40 and 14 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 15 sections: 50 keep time, 20 are fills, 26 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-77.

PART A
PART E
PART G
PART E
PART Q
PART Z
CHORUS
PART AH
OUTRO 2
14 groovesACGAJEZ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Twelve/Seventeen?

160 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 Twelve/Seventeen hard to play on drums?

63 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Twelve/Seventeen?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 2, 4, 17, 38, 39, 40 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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