Smokin' · Boston

165 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 3:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 13 and 27, and 14 more places -- 42.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 172 BPM
SMOKIN' · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 17, 19, 25, 26, 29 and 13 more.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 11 sections: 120 keep time, 19 are fills, 11 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-98.

PART C
PART M
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDCMAK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Smokin'?

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

Is Smokin' hard to play on drums?

64 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Smokin'?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 17, 19, 25, 26, 29 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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