Cruel Summer · Bananarama

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 85% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 17-23, and 11 more places -- 85.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 108 BPM
CRUEL SUMMER · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars: 96 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-96.

VERSE
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cruel Summer?

108 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 Cruel Summer hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 3 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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