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Summer · Beatsteaks

EXERCISE 12 OF 19
Join Part D to Chorus (bars 44-46)
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0 / 19 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEAS1DS5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Summer on drums

151 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 3:13 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-47, snare through bars 48-56, hi-hat through bars 57-79, snare through bars 80-88 and hi-hat through bars 89-105, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 35 and 37, and 17 more places -- 59.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 26, 30, 48, 62, 80, 150 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- E, F -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through the Break and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 42-151 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Summer?

188 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Summer hard to play on drums?

39 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 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Summer?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 26, 30, 48, 62, 80, 150 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED