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Seventeen · Sex Pistols

EXERCISE 16 OF 33
Fill at bar 32
50 / 68 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
PART K
PART L
PART O
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGKOBL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Seventeen on drums

68 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 1:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
1:55
DIFFICULTY
48/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, toms through bars 33-37, snare through bars 38-39, toms through bars 40-47 and snare through bars 48-50, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-15, 18-23 and 26-31 -- 26.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
Seventeen -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 32, 44 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- G, K -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 10-41 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 40-58 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 57-64 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Seventeen?

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 Seventeen hard to play on drums?

48 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 1:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Seventeen?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 32, 44 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED