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.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

92 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

73

LENGTH

3:10

DIFFICULTY

83/100

hi-hat through bars 1-44, snare through bars 45-53, silence through bars 54-59, snare through bars 60-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-73.

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.

    13                               14
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x-------------------|
HH |--------------------------------|----------------o-------o-------|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|----x-------x-----xxxxxx--xxxxxx|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x-|x-x---x-x-x---x-x-------x-------|

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

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
4. Bars 1-41 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
5. Bars 17-40 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
6. Through Part H and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.