fart smells good · bigsmill

434 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 9:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
434
LENGTH
9:50
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 5% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 102-104, 106-108 and 110-112, and 8 more places -- 5.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
FART SMELLS GOOD · BAR 240
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

58 fills to learn, played 133 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10 and 127 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 2-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 6-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 10-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 20-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

54 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

450 bars across 45 sections: 213 keep time, 133 are fills, 38 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 357-367.

CHORUS
PART CR
PART ET
37 groovesBBASBQCRET+32Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is fart smells good?

170 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 fart smells good hard to play on drums?

64 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

434 bars, about 9:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 194 exercises over 56 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in fart smells good?

58 fills to learn, played 133 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10 and 127 more.

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