Smile! Wait For The Flash. · Rev3rent

53 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 1:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
53
LENGTH
1:42
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-14, 16-18 and 21-22, and 2 more places -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
SMILE! WAIT FOR THE FLASH. · BAR 13
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 3, 4, 6, 8 and 32.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

53 bars across 7 sections: 34 keep time, 5 are fills, 6 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-28.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKS2SUP+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Smile! Wait For The Flash.?

125 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! Wait For The Flash. hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

53 bars, about 1:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 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! Wait For The Flash.?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 3, 4, 6, 8 and 32.

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