Seven Days · Joe Cocker

172 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 5:21 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-21, 23 and 25, and 30 more places -- 41.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
SEVEN DAYS · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

172 bars across 9 sections: 160 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-124.

CHORUS
PART C
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Seven Days?

128 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 Days hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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