Seventeen (Age) · Mike Krol

55 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 1:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Rock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
55
LENGTH
1:58
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 15-16 and 18-20, and 4 more places -- 65.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 106 BPM
SEVENTEEN (AGE) · BAR 5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 34.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

55 bars across 11 sections: 42 keep time, 1 is a fill and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-29.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
5 groovesBCS1S10S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Seventeen (Age)?

106 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 Seventeen (Age) hard to play on drums?

55 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

55 bars, about 1:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Seventeen (Age)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 34.

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