Smile In Your Sleep · Silverstein

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-15, 17-20 and 29-31, and 3 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 92 BPM
SMILE IN YOUR SLEEP · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 28 and 9 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 9 sections: 44 keep time, 15 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-20.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART J
PART S7
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDAHJS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Smile In Your Sleep?

92 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Smile In Your Sleep hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 Smile In Your Sleep?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 28 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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