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Summer Rain · Johnny Rivers

Summer Rain · Johnny Rivers
EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove D -- Chorus
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PART C
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDCFGH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Summer Rain on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-40, snare through bars 41-45, hi-hat through bars 46-78, snare through bars 79-81 and hi-hat through bars 82-99.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-19, 21-32 and 46-50, and 1 more place -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-o-x-x-|
SD |----r-------r---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Summer Rain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- D, C -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 35-94 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 39-54 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 77-99 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Summer Rain?

110 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 Rain hard to play on drums?

47 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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