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Corvette Summer · Green Day

EXERCISE 3 OF 28
Groove E -- Part E
38 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBEIS1S8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Corvette Summer on drums

90 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-60, ride through bars 61-67, snare through bars 68-69, toms through bars 70-72 and silence through bars 73-75, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7-10 and 29, and 9 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Corvette Summer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 28, 52, 68, 69, 70, 71 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 11-30 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-51 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 60-90 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Corvette Summer?

125 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 Corvette Summer hard to play on drums?

54 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Corvette Summer?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 28, 52, 68, 69, 70, 71 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED