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The Summer Ends · American Football

EXERCISE 21 OF 22
Run E1 · Outro 2 (bars 59-67)
63 / 67 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Summer Ends on drums

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.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-13, silence through bars 14-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-59 and snare through bars 60-67.

The beat

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.

    43
    1...........2...........3...........
RD |x-----x-----------------------------|
SD |g-----g-----g-----g-----g-----g-----|
BD |x-----x-----------------------x-----|
HF |x-----------x-----------x-----------|
The Summer Ends -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- I, E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part S3 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-34 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 34-62 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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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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