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Seven Days · Joe Cocker

EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove C -- Part C
0 / 172 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 72 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Seven Days on drums

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

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
50/100

toms through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-172.

The beat

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.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Seven Days -- 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 18 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 -- C, B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-28 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 62-155 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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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