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Smoking Snakes · Sabaton

EXERCISE 1 OF 54
Groove H -- Chorus
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PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART Y
PART AC
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHDACYFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Smoking Snakes on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
77/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-8, ride through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-12 and ride through bars 13-14, and 27 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 19-21 and 44-46, and 5 more places -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Smoking Snakes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part D -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part Y -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part Y and Part AC -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Smoking Snakes?

154 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Snakes hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Smoking Snakes?

16 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED