Summer Moved On · A-Ha

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

PopJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 22 and 24-26, and 9 more places -- 56.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 92 BPM
SUMMER MOVED ON · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 23, 27, 32, 58 and 79.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 8 sections: 60 keep time, 5 are fills, 2 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-74.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesCDS1S5S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Summer Moved On?

92 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 Moved On hard to play on drums?

46 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Summer Moved On?

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 23, 27, 32, 58 and 79.

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