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7 Things · Miley Cyrus

EXERCISE 4 OF 24
Fill at bar 20, 24, 54 and 73 (a small one)
63 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART F
BREAK
PART C
OUTRO 2
4 groovesACFS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 7 Things on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
45/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-30, toms through bars 31-32, snare through bars 33-46, hi-hat through bars 47-56 and toms through bars 57-58, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 33-45 and 59-60, and 1 more place -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----xxx---x-|
7 Things -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 46, 50, 54 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- A, C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 17-55 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 56-78 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is 7 Things?

110 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 Things hard to play on drums?

45 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Things?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 46, 50, 54 and 4 more.

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