Seven Minutes in Heaven · Mindless Self Indulgence

62 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 2:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
2:09
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-17, 19 and 33-35, and 1 more place -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
SEVEN MINUTES IN HEAVEN · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

62 bars across 9 sections: 49 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-62.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART J
VERSE
PART C
PART L
OUTRO
7 groovesHCLFB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Seven Minutes in Heaven?

115 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 Minutes in Heaven hard to play on drums?

61 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 2:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED
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