smoke & a light · Ole 60

55 bars, 3:06, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
55
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 5-9 and 11, and 1 more place -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 70 BPM
SMOKE & A LIGHT · BAR 3
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 18, 22, 25, 26, 42, 45 and 3 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

55 bars across 6 sections: 38 keep time, 9 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-38.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
6 groovesCFBDS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is smoke & a light?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is smoke & a light hard to play on drums?

38 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

55 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 smoke & a light?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 18, 22, 25, 26, 42, 45 and 3 more.

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