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Seven · Sunny Day Real Estate

EXERCISE 18 OF 51
Fill at bar 40 (a small one)
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0 / 51 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Seven on drums

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.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-79, snare through bars 80-81, hi-hat through bars 82-98, snare through bars 99-104, toms through bars 105-114 and hi-hat through bars 115-137, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
Seven -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-37 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-65 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 71-83 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 4 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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