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Seven Tears Are Flowing To The River · Nargaroth

EXERCISE 1 OF 7
Groove D -- Outro
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OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesS3DS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Seven Tears Are Flowing To The River on drums

154 bars of 12/4 -- not four -- at 114 BPM, 15:49 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
12/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
15:49
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, ride through bars 21-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-32, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 17-19 and 29-31, and 2 more places -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a8e+a9e+a0e+a1e+a2e+a
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Seven Tears Are Flowing To The River -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 30 more.

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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Seven Tears Are Flowing To The River?

114 BPM, in 12/4, 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 Tears Are Flowing To The River hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 15:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Seven Tears Are Flowing To The River?

1 fill to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED