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Lead Smile · Crowquill

EXERCISE 20 OF 59
3-bar fill at bar 28
53 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lead Smile on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
1:38
DIFFICULTY
63/100

snare through bars 1-8, silence through bars 9-11, hi-hat through bars 12-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-21, snare through bars 22-43 and kick and crashes through bars 44-45, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    69               70
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-----x---|x-x-x-----------|
BD |x-x-x-x-----xxxx|x-x-x-----------|
Lead Smile -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- AQ, S -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Y -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Y -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part Y and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part AJ -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED