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Cruel Summer · Taylor Swift

EXERCISE 9 OF 12
Groove G -- Outro 2
56 / 62 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBGS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cruel Summer on drums

62 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 2:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
39/100

snare through bars 1-39, hi-hat through bars 40-45, snare through bars 46-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-62.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-27, 31-39 and 46-54 -- 68.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Cruel Summer?

84 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?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED