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SUMMER★ · Kaleid Scope

SUMMER★ · Kaleid Scope
EXERCISE 18 OF 71
Join Part C to Chorus (bars 18-20)
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0 / 71 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play SUMMER★ on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
66/100

snare through bars 2-16, hi-hat through bars 17-29, snare through bars 30-32, hi-hat through bars 33-37, snare through bars 38-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-49, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
SUMMER★ -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- K, L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 16-42 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 40-51 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and the Chorus 3 -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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