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Alphabet (Wasted Summer) · Lovejoy

EXERCISE 1 OF 54
Groove L -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alphabet (Wasted Summer) on drums

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.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
74/100

hi-hat through bars 2-25, ride through bars 26-32, hi-hat through bars 33-49, ride through bars 50-65, hi-hat through bars 66-89 and ride through bars 90-122, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    51
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x----x--x-----|
Alphabet (Wasted Summer) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 19-49 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED