Sara Smile · Hall & Oates

58 bars, 3:08, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 14-15, and 12 more places -- 53.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 74 BPM
SARA SMILE · BAR 5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 44.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

58 bars: 57 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-43.

OUTRO
1 grooveCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sara Smile?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Sara Smile hard to play on drums?

49 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

58 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 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 Sara Smile?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 44.

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