Summer In The City · The Lovin' Spoonful

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10-12, and 14 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
SUMMER IN THE CITY · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 5, 7, 9, 13, 18 and 13 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 8 sections: 40 keep time, 19 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-17.

PART A
CHORUS
PART H
PART S4
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCHAS4S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Summer In The City?

100 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 In The City hard to play on drums?

45 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 In The City?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 5, 7, 9, 13, 18 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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