Spring Into Summer · Lizzy Mcalpine

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 91% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-55, 67-73 and 75-81, and 1 more place -- 90.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 96 BPM
SPRING INTO SUMMER · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 74 and 82.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 4 sections: 62 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-55.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Spring Into Summer?

96 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 Spring Into Summer hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Spring Into Summer?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 74 and 82.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED
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