Lead Smile · Crowquill

88 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 190 BPM, 1:38 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
1:38
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 69-73, 81 and 83-85, and 1 more place -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
LEAD SMILE · BARS 69-70
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 29 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 11 sections: 28 keep time, 35 are fills, 14 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-27.

CHORUS
PART S2
CHORUS 2
PART Y
CHORUS 3
PART AQ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesSAJAQS2Y+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lead Smile?

190 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Lead Smile hard to play on drums?

63 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 1:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Lead Smile?

17 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 29 more.

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