Sixes And Sevens · Annihilator

38 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 1:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
38
LENGTH
1:07
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23-30 -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 134 BPM
SIXES AND SEVENS · BARS 23-24
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 10, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 4 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

38 bars across 8 sections: 9 keep time, 10 are fills, 7 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-29.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART S4
PART S6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHJS2S4S1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sixes And Sevens?

134 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 Sixes And Sevens hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

38 bars, about 1:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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 Sixes And Sevens?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 10, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 38 BARS ANALYSED
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