Summertime · Janis Joplin

117 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 90 BPM, 3:54 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-19, 21-22 and 25-32, and 9 more places -- 47.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
SUMMERTIME · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 12 sections: 98 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-32.

PART A
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART A
CHORUS 4
PART F
OUTRO
4 groovesCFGAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Summertime?

90 BPM, in 3/4, 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 hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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