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Summer Romance (Anti-Gravity Love Song) · Incubus

EXERCISE 1 OF 49
Groove H -- Chorus
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VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
VERSE 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHEAAXS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Summer Romance (Anti-Gravity Love Song) on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

64 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
120
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-35, ride through bars 36-43, hi-hat through bars 44-70, ride through bars 71-78 and hi-hat through bars 79-88, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-26, 28-34 and 55-61, and 1 more place -- 24.3% 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 |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x----x|
Summer Romance (Anti-Gravity Love Song) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 18, 19, 27, 35, 39 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-20 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Verse and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and the Verse 2 -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through the Verse 2 and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Summer Romance (Anti-Gravity Love Song)?

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 Romance (Anti-Gravity Love Song) hard to play on drums?

64 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?

120 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 Romance (Anti-Gravity Love Song)?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 18, 19, 27, 35, 39 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED