Make You Smile · +44

156 bars of 4/4 at 149 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61-68, 101-107 and 109, and 4 more places -- 41.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 149 BPM
MAKE YOU SMILE · BAR 61
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 14 sections: 132 keep time and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 102-156.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART K
PART B
PART K
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesXBKAAS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Make You Smile?

149 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 Make You Smile hard to play on drums?

50 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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