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Black Summer · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove C -- Chorus
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PART D
CHORUS
PART D
PART H
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCDS6EH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Summer on drums

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-48, silence through bars 49-56 and ride through bars 57-83.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 13 more places -- 42.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----------x--------x--x--x--x-----x--------x--|
SD |------------x--------x-----x--------x--------x--|
BD |x-----------------------------x-----------------|
Black Summer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 30, 64 and 82.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-79 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-79 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Black Summer?

105 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Black Summer hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Black Summer?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 30, 64 and 82.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED