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EXERCISE 8 OF 40
2-bar fill at bar 36
102 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART R
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGRLCD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 7 Shots on drums

162 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-21, hi-hat through bars 22-35, toms through bars 36-61, ride through bars 62-108 and snare through bars 109-133, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 38-40, 42-44 and 46-48, and 15 more places -- 34% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    38                                               39
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------------------------------|
HH |------------------------------------------------|------------------------o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x---x---x---------------x---x---x---------------|x---x---x---------------x---x---x---x---x---x---|
7 Shots -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 36, 37, 93, 106, 109, 133 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- G, C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 58-73 -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 7 Shots?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Shots hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Shots?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 36, 37, 93, 106, 109, 133 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED