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Seven Goblins · Masayoshi Takanaka

EXERCISE 5 OF 17
Fill at bar 79 (a small one)
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0 / 17 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Seven Goblins on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-87, ride through bars 88-103 and hi-hat through bars 104-111.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 8-14, 16-22 and 24-30, and 8 more places -- 74% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    8                9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |-xxx-xxx-xxxxx-x|xx-x-xxx-xxxxxxx|
SD |----x---------x-|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x--x----|x-x----x--------|
HF |x-------x-------|--x-----x-------|
Seven Goblins -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 15, 23, 31, 39, 79, 87 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 79-105 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 84-107 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Seven Goblins?

137 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 Goblins hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Seven Goblins?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 15, 23, 31, 39, 79, 87 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED