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Summer Of '69 · Bryan Adams

EXERCISE 37 OF 45
Join Break 2 to Outro (bars 74-76)
98 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK 2, OUTRO
PART S1
PART C
PART K
PART G
PART I
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesUKICS1+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Summer Of '69 on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
67/100

snare through bar 1, silence through bars 2-11, hi-hat through bars 12-19, ride through bars 20-29, hi-hat through bars 30-41 and ride through bars 42-51, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 94-96, 98-100 and 102-108, and 3 more places -- 21.2% 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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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |-x----------------------------------------------|
HH |-------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o----|
SD |-------------x-----------------------x----------|
BD |-x-----------------------x----------------------|
Summer Of '69 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 19, 33, 50, 59, 63, 67 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- U -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-51 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-37 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-60 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-76 -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 74-125 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Summer Of '69?

139 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 Of '69 hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Of '69?

9 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 19, 33, 50, 59, 63, 67 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED