Summer · Alien Ant Farm

136 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 102 BPM, 4:00 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 11, and 24 more places -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 102 BPM
SUMMER · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 10, 16, 19 and 36 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 8-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 12 sections: 76 keep time, 42 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-99.

CHORUS
PART I
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART AG
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
6 groovesCDAGIAI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Summer?

102 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Summer hard to play on drums?

64 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Summer?

15 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 10, 16, 19 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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