Smile · Lily Allen

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaeJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 15 more places -- 75% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 96 BPM
SMILE · BAR 3
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars: 72 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-72.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Smile?

96 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 Smile hard to play on drums?

41 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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