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Smokestack Lightning · Howlin' Wolf

Smokestack Lightning · Howlin' Wolf
EXERCISE 1 OF 8
Groove A -- Chorus
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0 / 8 PASSED · 99 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Smokestack Lightning on drums

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

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-48, ride through bars 49-54, hi-hat through bars 55-96, ride through bars 97-102 and hi-hat through bars 103-111.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Bars 47-55 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

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