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Summertime Suicide · Murderdolls

EXERCISE 23 OF 26
Run H3 · Outro (bars 125-133)
142 / 148 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFHCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Summertime Suicide on drums

148 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
48/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-7, snare through bars 8-19, hi-hat through bars 20-39, snare through bars 40-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-55, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-17, 20-38 and 40-42, and 13 more places -- 79.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Summertime Suicide -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 9, 39, 82, 83, 107 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- F -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 43-52 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 49-128 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Summertime Suicide?

152 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 Suicide hard to play on drums?

48 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Summertime Suicide?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 9, 39, 82, 83, 107 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED