DIE WITH A SMILE - EASY VERSION DRUM · BRUNO LADY

89 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 79 BPM, 3:23 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulPopUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
26/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 12-14 and 16-17, and 9 more places -- 43.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 79 BPM
DIE WITH A SMILE - EASY VERSION DRUM · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 5, 80 and 81.

LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 79 BPM
BARS 80-81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 10 sections: 54 keep time, 5 are fills, 2 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-40.

CHORUS
PART C
PART F
PART C
PART S7
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEFCS9S7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is DIE WITH A SMILE - EASY VERSION DRUM?

79 BPM, in 3/4, 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 DIE WITH A SMILE - EASY VERSION DRUM hard to play on drums?

26 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 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 DIE WITH A SMILE - EASY VERSION DRUM?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 5, 80 and 81.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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