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Seven Bridges Road · Eagles

EXERCISE 27 OF 27
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
PART B
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART F
PART G
PART H
PART G
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEGIBC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Seven Bridges Road on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-48, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-36 -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
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Seven Bridges Road -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- E, G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-36 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-49 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-76 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Seven Bridges Road?

90 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 Seven Bridges Road hard to play on drums?

40 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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