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EXERCISE 23 OF 47
Groove M
75 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART P
PART D
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART T
PART X
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJDS11XAD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Smells Like A Freakshow on drums

118 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 4:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
59/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-21, snare through bars 22-23, toms through bars 24-32, hi-hat through bars 33-49 and snare through bars 50-51, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-32, 53-59 and 93-100 -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
FT |x---x---x---x--x|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Smells Like A Freakshow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 4, 23, 50, 51, 60 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- J, D -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-47 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 44-56 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 61-74 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Smells Like A Freakshow?

107 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 Smells Like A Freakshow hard to play on drums?

59 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Smells Like A Freakshow?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 4, 23, 50, 51, 60 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED