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Summertime Blues · Eddie Cochran

Summertime Blues · Eddie Cochran
EXERCISE 9 OF 14
Join Chorus 5 to Break 5 (bars 115-117)
140 / 148 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 5, BREAK 5
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
BREAK 5
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
7 groovesBS10S12S2S4+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Summertime Blues on drums

148 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
42/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-20, silence through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-42, silence through bars 43-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-64, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-16, 19-20 and 23-38, and 11 more places -- 86.8% 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 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Summertime Blues -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 148.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 41-95 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Summertime Blues?

144 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 Summertime Blues hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 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 Summertime Blues?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 148.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED