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Shark Smile · Big Thief

EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove C -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shark Smile on drums

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

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
35/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-63, hi-hat through bars 64-100 and snare through bars 101-106.

The beat

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.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Shark 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 13 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 -- C, D -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 4-68 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED