Summerland · Everclear

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 9-15 and 29-31, and 15 more places -- 44.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 104 BPM
SUMMERLAND · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 24, 28, 32, 36, 44 and 7 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 10 sections: 73 keep time, 13 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 89-96.

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

Questions

What BPM is Summerland?

104 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 Summerland hard to play on drums?

46 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 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 Summerland?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 24, 28, 32, 36, 44 and 7 more.

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