The Boys Of Summer · Don Henley

209 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 4:43 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
177 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
209
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 28 and 30, and 59 more places -- 35.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 177 BPM
THE BOYS OF SUMMER · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.

LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

209 bars across 8 sections: 178 keep time, 1 is a fill and 18 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-130.

PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHIDFBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Boys Of Summer?

177 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Boys Of Summer hard to play on drums?

43 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

209 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 6 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 The Boys Of Summer?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.

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