7 Seconds, 0 Decibels · Car Underwater

121 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 2:46 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 8 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
7 SECONDS, 0 DECIBELS · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 19, 20 and 28 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 18-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 10 sections: 72 keep time, 34 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-70.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART U
PART Z
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCZUBE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 7 Seconds, 0 Decibels?

175 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 7 Seconds, 0 Decibels hard to play on drums?

52 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 7 Seconds, 0 Decibels?

16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 19, 20 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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