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Smile · Uncle Kracker

Smile · Uncle Kracker
EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove I -- Chorus
0 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 33 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART R
CHORUS 4
10 groovesIBJGR+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Smile on drums

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.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
43/100

hi-hat through bars 2-6, silence through bars 7-11, hi-hat through bars 12-25, snare through bars 26-27, ride through bars 28-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-54, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|
Smile -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- I, B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 24-78 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-55 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 55-86 -- 9 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  7. Bars 88-101 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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