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The Summer · Citizen

EXERCISE 22 OF 38
Join Part F to Break (bars 30-32)
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0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, BREAK
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
PART F
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBTCKF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Summer on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-32, snare through bars 33-48, hi-hat through bars 49-54 and snare through bars 55-56, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- B, D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 12-26 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-59 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 33-67 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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