7 Nation Army White Belt · White Stripes

117 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-16, 41-52 and 86-95 -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
7 NATION ARMY WHITE BELT · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 10 sections: 54 keep time, 46 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-16.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
6 groovesDCS1S4S7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 7 Nation Army White Belt?

120 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 7 Nation Army White Belt hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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