In The Summertime · Thirsty Merc

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 79 BPM, 3:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 43 and 58-66, and 1 more place -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 79 BPM
IN THE SUMMERTIME · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 2, 6, 18, 22, 26, 30 and 16 more.

LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 11 sections: 33 keep time, 22 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-66.

PART S2
PART F
PART A
PART I
PART C
PART O
CHORUS
PART S9
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesROIFA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In The Summertime?

79 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 In The Summertime hard to play on drums?

56 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 In The Summertime?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 2, 6, 18, 22, 26, 30 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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