Smile · Uncle Kracker

115 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-39, 58 and 60, and 5 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
SMILE · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 21, 25, 61, 73, 77, 84 and 1 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 16 sections: 51 keep time, 7 are fills, 31 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-17.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART R
10 groovesIBJGR+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Smile?

140 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?

43 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Smile?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 21, 25, 61, 73, 77, 84 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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