This Ain't the Summer of Love · Blue Öyster Cult

71 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-15, 17-19 and 21-30, and 3 more places -- 63.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 125 BPM
THIS AIN'T THE SUMMER OF LOVE · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 32, 44, 56, 60 and 64.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 4 sections: 60 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-31.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCMPS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This Ain't the Summer of Love?

125 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 This Ain't the Summer of Love hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 This Ain't the Summer of Love?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 32, 44, 56, 60 and 64.

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