The Summer Ends · American Football

67 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 86 BPM, 2:54 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieProgressiveUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-58 -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 86 BPM
THE SUMMER ENDS · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 8 sections: 53 keep time, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-58.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART S3
PART F
PART H
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIFEDG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Summer Ends?

86 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Ends hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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