Keep on Smiling · Wet Willie

103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-36, 56-59 and 61-68, and 3 more places -- 45.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 102 BPM
KEEP ON SMILING · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 97 and 98.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 97-98 · LANDS ON BAR 99 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 10 sections: 88 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-76.

PART C
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
6 groovesFDCIL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Keep on Smiling?

102 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 Keep on Smiling hard to play on drums?

45 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Keep on Smiling?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 97 and 98.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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