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Sweet Dreams - Seven Nation Army Mashup · Pomplamoose

EXERCISE 25 OF 38
Fill at bar 54 (a small one)
55 / 74 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAIACGMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sweet Dreams - Seven Nation Army Mashup on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
50/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-13, hi-hat through bars 14-22, ride through bars 23-28 and kick and crashes through bars 29-35, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 7-13 and 29-35 -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Sweet Dreams - Seven Nation Army Mashup -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 2, 22, 44, 45, 46, 54 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- A, I -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-26 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 38-53 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sweet Dreams - Seven Nation Army Mashup?

120 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 Sweet Dreams - Seven Nation Army Mashup hard to play on drums?

50 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Sweet Dreams - Seven Nation Army Mashup?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 2, 22, 44, 45, 46, 54 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED