TWENTY ONE PILOTS · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Seven Nation Army (Cover)

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 21-24 and 39-51, and 1 more place -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
53/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 120 BPM
SEVEN NATION ARMY (COVER) · BAR 5

It is played on the kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 0 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how fine the subdivision is.

The whole song is 53 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 90 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

Tempo goes 90, 105 and 120 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does Seven Nation Army (Cover) use?

A one-bar groove on kick, in 4/4 at 120 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 44.4% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 5-19, 21-24, 39-51 and 53-56. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 12 times over the song.

Is the beat in Seven Nation Army (Cover) hard?

0 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED