SUMMER★ · Kaleid Scope

143 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 2:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 26-28 and 34-36, and 8 more places -- 24.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 194 BPM
SUMMER★ · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 12, 13, 17, 19, 29, 33 and 24 more.

LOOP · 194 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 17 sections: 75 keep time, 30 are fills, 22 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-28.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AG
PART AJ
11 groovesKCBAGH+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is SUMMER★?

194 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?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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★?

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 12, 13, 17, 19, 29, 33 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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