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Saosin - Seven Years · Xiaoxin

EXERCISE 4 OF 44
Groove B -- Chorus
13 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART K
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBKAEMAH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Saosin - Seven Years on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
85/100

hi-hat through bars 1-70, silence through bars 71-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-94.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 74-76, 78-80 and 82-84, and 1 more place -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    74                               75
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|----o---o---o---o-----------o---|
SD |------------x---x-------x-------|------------x---x-------x-x-----|
BD |x-----x---x-------x---x-----x---|x-----x---x---------xxxx--------|
Saosin - Seven Years -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 7, 9, 11, 21, 36 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- AE -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Saosin - Seven 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 Saosin - Seven Years 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 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Saosin - Seven Years?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 7, 9, 11, 21, 36 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED