Seven Nation Army (The White Stripes) · ЧДР

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

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
27/100
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 (THE WHITE STRIPES) · 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 (The White Stripes)?

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 (The White Stripes) hard to play on drums?

27 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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