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Summernight City · Therion

EXERCISE 29 OF 30
Run A2 · Outro 2 (bars 41-119)
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0 / 30 PASSED · 79 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Summernight City on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 4:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

51 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
119
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 1-48, snare through bars 49-53, hi-hat through bars 54-80, snare through bars 81-84 and hi-hat through bars 85-119.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 17-23, and 11 more places -- 79.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 16, 32, 36, 40, 48 and 8 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 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 10 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Summernight City?

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 Summernight City hard to play on drums?

51 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Summernight City?

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 16, 32, 36, 40, 48 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED