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Summertime Voodoo · Highly Suspect

EXERCISE 29 OF 50
Join Part D to Chorus 2 (bars 44-46)
106 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART L
PART S11
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGDHAGJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Summertime Voodoo on drums

134 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 6:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
6:18
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-27, ride through bars 28-30, hi-hat through bars 31-75, snare through bars 76-82 and toms through bars 83-84, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11-13 and 15, and 23 more places -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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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 Voodoo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 2, 6, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- G, H -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 42-76 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 71-88 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Summertime Voodoo?

85 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 Voodoo hard to play on drums?

49 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 6:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 2, 6, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED