Alphabet (Wasted Summer) · Lovejoy

181 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 4:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-56, 58-63 and 106-112, and 5 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 153 BPM
ALPHABET (WASTED SUMMER) · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 17, 25, 41, 49, 57, 64 and 7 more.

LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BARS 64-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

181 bars across 13 sections: 148 keep time, 16 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-16.

PART C
PART I
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART V
OUTRO
9 groovesLICVY+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Alphabet (Wasted Summer)?

153 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 Alphabet (Wasted Summer) hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 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 Alphabet (Wasted Summer)?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 17, 25, 41, 49, 57, 64 and 7 more.

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