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Summertime · My Chemical Romance

EXERCISE 17 OF 36
Fill at bar 88 (a small one)
111 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART J
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
PART J
CHORUS 2
5 groovesABJHS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Summertime on drums

128 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-88, ride through bars 89-102, hi-hat through bars 103-123, silence through bars 124-125 and hi-hat through bars 126-128.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 41 more places -- 42.9% 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
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Summertime -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 20, 36, 50, 58, 66, 88 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-90 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part J -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 6 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Summertime?

130 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 hard to play on drums?

55 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Summertime?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 20, 36, 50, 58, 66, 88 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED