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Summer · Good Kid

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 36 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCIFOKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Summer on drums

107 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:23 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, 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
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-62, snare through bars 63-74, hi-hat through bars 75-76, toms through bars 77-88, snare through bars 89-90 and hi-hat through bars 91-92, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 12-18 and 35-41, and 1 more place -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-------x---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 3 times: bars 50, 76 and 106.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, I -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-67 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Summer?

180 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?

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

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 2:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 50, 76 and 106.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED