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The Seventh Circle · Architects

EXERCISE 2 OF 22
Groove E
11 / 72 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART H, OUTRO
PART D
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesS6HDS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Seventh Circle on drums

72 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 1:36 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
1:36
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-31, snare through bars 32-36 and silence through bars 37-72.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 4, 6-7 and 10-11, and 3 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    6                7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|----o---o-------|
SD |--------x-------|------x-----xxxx|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxx----|
The Seventh Circle -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 2, 3, 8, 16, 24, 28 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-72 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Seventh Circle?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Seventh Circle hard to play on drums?

57 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 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 1:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 21 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 Seventh Circle?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 2, 3, 8, 16, 24, 28 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED