Big Smile · Turnstile

59 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 1:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
59
LENGTH
1:26
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-36 and 46-51 -- 24.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BIG SMILE · BAR 46
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 13, 20, 29, 37, 45 and 6 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

59 bars across 8 sections: 29 keep time, 12 are fills, 5 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-36.

PART B
PART E
PART F
PART S5
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKEFS5B+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Big Smile?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Big Smile hard to play on drums?

62 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

59 bars, about 1:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Big Smile?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 13, 20, 29, 37, 45 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 59 BARS ANALYSED
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