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7 Words · Deftones

EXERCISE 12 OF 68
Join Part E to Part C (bars 11-13)
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PART E
PART C
CHORUS
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART S7
PART AB
PART Z
PART AJ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesLCAJAPE+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 7 Words on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
85/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-28, ride through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52, ride through bars 53-61 and silence through bars 62-66, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 33-34 and 53-55, and 3 more places -- 14.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-----x-|
BD |x-----------x-x---x-x-------x---|
7 Words -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 24, 27, 28 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-29 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 7 Words?

114 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 Words hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Words?

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 24, 27, 28 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED