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Make You Smile · +44

EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove X -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Make You Smile on drums

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

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

TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-33, silence through bars 34-36, hi-hat through bars 37-60, toms through bars 61-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-85, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    61
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----g-----g-----|
FT |gggg--g-g---g-g-|
BD |x---x---x---x-x-|
Make You Smile -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- X, B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 24-74 -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 32-64 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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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