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Seven · iwrotehaikusaboutcannibalisminyouryearbook
EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove AG -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
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PART C
CHORUS
PART J
PART I
PART S7
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesS3AGUIJ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 4
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Seven on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-12, silence through bars 13-31, kick and crashes through bars 32-34, snare through bars 35-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-46, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 97-103, 105-107 and 109-111 -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    97                                                               98
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |o---------------o---------------o---------------o-------o-------|----------------o---------------o---------------o---------------|
SD |----------------x-----------x-------------------x---------------|----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------x-------x---------------x-------|x-------x-----------------------x-------x---------------x-------|
Seven -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 33, 34, 38, 42, 54, 58 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- AG -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-59 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part S7 and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Seven?

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 Seven hard to play on drums?

63 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Seven?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 33, 34, 38, 42, 54, 58 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED