Seven · Sunny Day Real Estate

165 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 25-27, and 29 more places -- 37.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
SEVEN · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 4, 8, 28, 32, 36, 40 and 47 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 12 sections: 87 keep time, 59 are fills and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-16.

PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
4 groovesANGDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Seven?

140 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 hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Seven?

18 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 4, 8, 28, 32, 36, 40 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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