Seven Nation Army · The White Stripes

117 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
28/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-24, 41-60 and 85-104 -- 56.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 124 BPM
SEVEN NATION ARMY · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 7 sections: 58 keep time, 46 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-24.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesBS1S3S5S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Seven Nation Army?

124 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 hard to play on drums?

28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many limbs land on the same note the part that decides it. The beat itself is 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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