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Seventh Heaven · INOHA

EXERCISE 10 OF 40
Join Part C to Part E (bars 32-34)
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0 / 40 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART E
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART J
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART G
PART K
OUTRO
13 groovesBGAMH+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Seventh Heaven on drums

148 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-47, snare through bars 48-49, hi-hat through bars 50-57, snare through bars 58-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-95, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-25, 50-57 and 106-113 -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o-x-o-x-o-x-|
SD |x---x---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

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 147.

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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-29 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-56 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 53-82 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 62-72 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 78-123 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Seventh Heaven?

164 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 Seventh Heaven hard to play on drums?

53 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 147.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED