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The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army (With Bass) · Unknown

EXERCISE 10 OF 23
Fill at bar 24, 56, 60 and 2 more (a small one)
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PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART B
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHBEAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army (With Bass) on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
38/100

snare through bars 2-4, toms through bars 5-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-40, toms through bars 41-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-60, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-15, 41-51 and 85-95 -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x---------------|------------x---|
FT |----x---x---x---|x---x---x-------|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x-x---x-|
The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army (With Bass) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 24, 56, 60, 100 and 104.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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, H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-52 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 49-80 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army (With Bass)?

124 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 White Stripes - Seven Nation Army (With Bass) hard to play on drums?

38 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 White Stripes - Seven Nation Army (With Bass)?

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 24, 56, 60, 100 and 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED