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7 Years · Lukas

7 Years · Lukas
EXERCISE 5 OF 12
Join Chorus to Part E (bars 31-33)
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0 / 12 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART E
CHORUS
PART E
BREAK
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBS4EAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 7 Years on drums

82 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-32, toms through bars 33-37, silence through bars 38-61, hi-hat through bars 62-72 and toms through bars 73-77, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-27, 30-32 and 62-67, and 1 more place -- 61.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    8
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------|
7 Years -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 68 and 69.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 31-82 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is 7 Years?

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 Years 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Years?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 68 and 69.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED