Seven Year Ache · Rosanne Cash

99 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Country / FolkPop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 95% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-39, 41-75 and 77-81, and 3 more places -- 94.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 122 BPM
SEVEN YEAR ACHE · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars: 99 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-99.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Seven Year Ache?

122 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 Year Ache hard to play on drums?

45 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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