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Seventh Heaven · B'Z

EXERCISE 3 OF 50
Groove L
32 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT
PART C
CHORUS
PART V
PART AB
CHORUS 2
7 groovesMCABVAI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Seventh Heaven on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 4:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-19, ride through bars 20-36, hi-hat through bars 37-49, ride through bars 50-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-75, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 33-34 and 59-61, and 6 more places -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
RD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x--x-----x--|
Seventh Heaven -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 7, 11, 15, 27, 36, 37 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- M, J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Seventh Heaven?

107 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Seventh Heaven hard to play on drums?

63 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Seventh Heaven?

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 7, 11, 15, 27, 36, 37 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED