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Seventy Times 7 · Brand New

EXERCISE 4 OF 29
Fill at bar 64 and 72 (a small one)
38 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCS6KDFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Seventy Times 7 on drums

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 3:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
55/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-3, hi-hat through bars 4-36, snare through bars 37-41, silence through bars 42-64 and snare through bars 65-80.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 21-24 and 30-31, and 1 more place -- 37.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Seventy Times 7 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 20, 28, 32, 64, 68, 72 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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, K -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-26 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-41 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Seventy Times 7?

91 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 Seventy Times 7 hard to play on drums?

55 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 Seventy Times 7?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 20, 28, 32, 64, 68, 72 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED