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Seven Nation Army (Cover) · twenty one pilots

EXERCISE 8 OF 26
Groove G (a two-bar phrase)
61 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART S7
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBFS7DS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Seven Nation Army (Cover) on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

53 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
110
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-15, snare through bars 16-24, toms through bars 25-26, ride through bars 27-34 and toms through bars 35-36, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Seven Nation Army (Cover) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 25, 26, 57, 58, 94, 103 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part F and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Seven Nation Army (Cover)?

120 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 Nation Army (Cover) hard to play on drums?

53 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 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 Nation Army (Cover)?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 25, 26, 57, 58, 94, 103 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED