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Summer · Alien Ant Farm

EXERCISE 6 OF 56
Groove D -- Part D
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CHORUS
PART I
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART AG
CHORUS 4
PART D
OUTRO
6 groovesCDAGIAI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Summer on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-24, snare through bars 25-41, hi-hat through bars 42-57, snare through bars 58-89 and ride through bars 90-107, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x--x-x----g-|
Summer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-30 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-82 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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