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Dumb Summer · Helen 55

Dumb Summer · Helen 55
EXERCISE 13 OF 26
Fill at bar 23, 67 and 71 (a small one)
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0 / 26 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dumb Summer on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 2-76.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x---x---x---x|
Dumb Summer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-20 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-42 -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part E and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-60 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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