The Summer · Citizen

92 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 2:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 33-39 and 41-47 -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 134 BPM
THE SUMMER · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 26, 28, 30, 40, 48 and 8 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 9 sections: 48 keep time, 14 are fills, 14 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBTCKF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Summer?

134 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 The Summer hard to play on drums?

46 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 26, 28, 30, 40, 48 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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