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The Seven Seas · Morofop

EXERCISE 26 OF 56
Groove R -- Part R
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0 / 56 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART R
PART D
CHORUS
PART R
PART V
PART X
8 groovesIDXVR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Seven Seas on drums

138 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 5:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-34, toms through bars 35-36, hi-hat through bars 37-53, snare through bars 54-68 and toms through bars 69-73, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37, 39 and 41, and 13 more places -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------X-------|
BD |X---x-x-x-x-x---|
The Seven Seas -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 25, 33, 35 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- I, D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 88-115 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Seven Seas?

95 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 The Seven Seas hard to play on drums?

61 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The Seven Seas?

13 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 25, 33, 35 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED