Summer · Blackfield

40 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 2:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
40
LENGTH
2:06
DIFFICULTY
28/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-24 and 26-40 -- 93.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 76 BPM
SUMMER · BAR 10
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

40 bars across 2 sections: 32 keep time and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-40.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Summer?

76 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 Summer hard to play on drums?

28 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

40 bars, about 2:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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