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Summer Wind Was Always Our Song · The Ataris

EXERCISE 10 OF 63
Groove G -- Part G
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PART D
PART G
PART J
PART J
PART M
PART T
BREAK 2
OUTRO 2
12 groovesAHJTDN+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 1
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Summer Wind Was Always Our Song on drums

154 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, silence through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-34 and snare through bars 35-36, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-26 and 55-60 -- 8.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Summer Wind Was Always Our Song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 27, 28, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- J, O (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Bars 11-29 -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 30-39 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 36-51 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-93 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Summer Wind Was Always Our Song?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Summer Wind Was Always Our Song hard to play on drums?

48 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Wind Was Always Our Song?

12 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 27, 28, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED