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Edge Of Seventeen · Stevie Nicks

EXERCISE 15 OF 30
Fill at bar 76
146 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE VERSE
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
VERSE
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
4 groovesADIBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Edge Of Seventeen on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
5:26
DIFFICULTY
66/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |XxxxXxxxXxxxXxxx|
BD |--x-------x-----|
Edge Of Seventeen -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 42-70 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 70-116 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 115-145 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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