Summerboy · Lady Gaga

111 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 4:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 15 and 19, and 19 more places -- 47.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 106 BPM
SUMMERBOY · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 5, 65, 98 and 104.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 11 sections: 90 keep time, 4 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-55.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGDBJS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Summerboy?

106 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 Summerboy hard to play on drums?

54 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?

111 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Summerboy?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 5, 65, 98 and 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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