7 Stories · Alternative Competition 5

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-53 and 77-95 -- 39.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
7 STORIES · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 3, 13, 17, 21, 25 and 61.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 11 sections: 77 keep time, 6 are fills, 3 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-54.

PART C
PART E
PART J
CHORUS
PART E
PART J
CHORUS 2
7 groovesLEJCS10+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 7 Stories?

90 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 Stories 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in 7 Stories?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 3, 13, 17, 21, 25 and 61.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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