Dumb Summer · Helen 55

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 20-22, and 7 more places -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
DUMB SUMMER · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 5, 18, 19, 23, 36, 37 and 7 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 10 sections: 51 keep time, 13 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-17.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART E
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBELJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dumb Summer?

90 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 Dumb Summer hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Dumb Summer?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 5, 18, 19, 23, 36, 37 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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