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Keep on Smiling · Wet Willie

Keep on Smiling · Wet Willie
EXERCISE 4 OF 29
Groove A -- Part A
65 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Keep on Smiling on drums

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.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
45/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-76, toms through bars 77-82, hi-hat through bars 83-92, ride through bars 93-98 and hi-hat through bars 99-103.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
Keep on Smiling -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- F, D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 3-40 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-81 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 91-99 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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