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Summerland · Everclear

EXERCISE 23 OF 25
Play the whole song with the record
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INTRO
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesABIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Summerland on drums

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

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

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
46/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-28, snare through bars 29-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-44, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- A, B -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Bars 9-53 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 3 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 67-84 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
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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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