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7 Seconds, 0 Decibels · Car Underwater

7 Seconds, 0 Decibels · Car Underwater
EXERCISE 13 OF 64
Run C1 · Chorus (bars 1-7)
66 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 7 Seconds, 0 Decibels on drums

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.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-17, toms through bars 18-24, snare through bars 25-41, toms through bars 42-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-49, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
7 Seconds, 0 Decibels -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- C, Z -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-51 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 23-51 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 8-27 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 25-51 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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