Summer Breeze · Type O Negative

76 bars, 4:50, at 63 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
63 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 20-22 and 35-37, and 5 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 63 BPM
SUMMER BREEZE · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 8, 11, 14, 19, 24 and 13 more.

LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 10 sections: 44 keep time, 19 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-23.

PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART C
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIFCTR+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Summer Breeze?

63 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Summer Breeze hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 8, 11, 14, 19, 24 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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