Seventeen · Heathers: The Musical

111 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 2:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 64-70, 72-74 and 76-78 -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 192 BPM
SEVENTEEN · BAR 65
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

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

LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 16 sections: 53 keep time, 1 is a fill, 5 are stops and 42 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-62.

PART S3
PART S8
PART C
PART B
PART H
PART K
PART M
CHORUS
13 groovesS14HKCS3+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Seventeen?

192 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Seventeen hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 2:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 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 Seventeen?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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