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The Boys Of Summer · The Ataris

EXERCISE 12 OF 34
Groove K -- Part K
160 / 195 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART E
CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
4 groovesGEKUFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Boys Of Summer on drums

195 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-121, ride through bars 122-124, hi-hat through bars 125-188 and ride through bars 189-195.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-35, 37-43 and 45-51, and 10 more places -- 67.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
The Boys Of Summer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 20, 36, 44, 52, 68, 84 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and the Outro -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Boys Of Summer?

190 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?

56 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 The Boys Of Summer?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 20, 36, 44, 52, 68, 84 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED