Smokestack Lightning · Howlin' Wolf

111 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 89% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-48, 55-96 and 103-111 -- 89.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 140 BPM
SMOKESTACK LIGHTNING · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 5 sections: 107 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-48.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Smokestack Lightning?

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 Smokestack Lightning hard to play on drums?

53 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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