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DIE WITH A SMILE - EASY VERSION DRUM · BRUNO LADY

EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove E -- Chorus
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0 / 21 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play DIE WITH A SMILE - EASY VERSION DRUM on drums

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.

26 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
26/100

silence through bars 1-7, ride through bars 8-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-19, hi-hat through bars 20-21, ride through bars 22-25 and hi-hat through bars 26-41, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x-----------|
DIE WITH A SMILE - EASY VERSION DRUM -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- E, F -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 5-28 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 25-82 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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