Smoke 'em If Ya Got 'em · Parkway Drive

154 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 90, 92 and 94, and 6 more places -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
SMOKE 'EM IF YA GOT 'EM · BAR 116
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 25, 26, 43 and 12 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 24-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 43-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 13 sections: 95 keep time, 18 are fills, 23 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-42.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART S7
PART U
PART S10
PART U
OUTRO
11 groovesHUXCA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Smoke 'em If Ya Got 'em?

195 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Smoke 'em If Ya Got 'em hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 'em If Ya Got 'em?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 25, 26, 43 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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