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Summer Nights · Grease

EXERCISE 24 OF 25
Run S61 · Outro 2 (bars 80-96)
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0 / 25 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDS6S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Summer Nights on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-80, silence through bars 81-92 and toms through bars 93-96.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 28 more places -- 42.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    7
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----------x---x-----------x---|
Summer Nights -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 16, 34, 54, 63, 69 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 57-96 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Summer Nights?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Nights hard to play on drums?

56 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Nights?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 16, 34, 54, 63, 69 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED