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Seven Nation Army · The White Stripes

EXERCISE 1 OF 6
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 6 PASSED · 60 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesBS1S3S5S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Seven Nation Army on drums

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

28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many limbs land on the same note the part that decides it.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
28/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-26, snare through bars 27-34, kick and crashes through bars 35-37 and silence through bars 38-40, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED