Edge Of Seventeen · Stevie Nicks

152 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 5:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
5:26
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-14, 16-30 and 33-35, and 5 more places -- 45.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 112 BPM
EDGE OF SEVENTEEN · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 36, 38, 39, 40, 42, 43 and 18 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 38-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 15 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 42-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 9 sections: 120 keep time and 24 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-35.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
4 groovesADIBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Edge Of Seventeen?

112 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 Edge Of Seventeen hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 5:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Edge Of Seventeen?

6 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 36, 38, 39, 40, 42, 43 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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