Shark Smile · Big Thief

106 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-64 and 101-106 -- 35% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
SHARK SMILE · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 5 sections: 99 keep time and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-99.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shark Smile?

130 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 Shark Smile hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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