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Summerboy · Lady Gaga

EXERCISE 15 OF 22
Chorus into Part D with the record (bars 39-46)
106 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART D
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Summerboy on drums

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

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

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bars 1-6 and hi-hat through bars 7-111.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-o-x-o-x-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Summerboy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- G, D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-32 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-70 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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