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In The Summertime · Thirsty Merc

In The Summertime · Thirsty Merc
EXERCISE 12 OF 47
Groove F -- Part F
41 / 73 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In The Summertime on drums

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.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-3, silence through bars 4-6, hi-hat through bars 7-18, ride through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-36 and ride through bars 37-39, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x-x--x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
In The Summertime -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- R -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O, A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part S2 -- 6 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-15 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part A and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 15-33 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 31-47 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 40-54 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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