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Seventeen · Winger

Seventeen · Winger
EXERCISE 6 OF 35
Groove J
44 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCEAJQAA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Seventeen on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
57/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-83 and ride through bars 84-99.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 16, and 12 more places -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
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

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 17, 37, 47, 97, 98 and 99.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- C, E -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 23-36 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 58-64 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Seventeen?

96 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?

57 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 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 Seventeen?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 17, 37, 47, 97, 98 and 99.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED