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Smoking Out The Window · Bruno Mars

EXERCISE 30 OF 35
11-bar fill at bar 46
66 / 66 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesHDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Smoking Out The Window on drums

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 3:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-48, ride through bars 49-53, hi-hat through bars 54-57, ride through bars 58-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-66.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 6 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----r-------r---|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|
Smoking Out The Window -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 17, 20, 22 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-39 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Smoking Out The Window?

82 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 Smoking Out The Window hard to play on drums?

61 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Smoking Out The Window?

11 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 17, 20, 22 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED