Summer Breeze · Seals And Crofts

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / FolkRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 10-11 and 13-15, and 11 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 85 BPM
SUMMER BREEZE · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 29.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 6 sections: 65 keep time, 1 is a fill and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-65.

CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCNHS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Summer Breeze?

85 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 Breeze hard to play on drums?

43 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?

72 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Summer Breeze?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 29.

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