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Seventyseven dog years · underscores

EXERCISE 1 OF 7
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 7 PASSED · 57 BARS LIT
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
OUTRO
5 groovesBS7S1S3S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Seventyseven dog years on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 3:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
33/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-46, silence through bars 47-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-84.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-24, 27-28 and 31-46, and 1 more place -- 90.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Seventyseven dog years?

99 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 Seventyseven dog years hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED