Smoky · Char

163 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 85-106 -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SMOKY · BAR 85
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 7, 11, 12, 13, 15, 23 and 28 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 11-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 23-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 18 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 16 sections: 100 keep time, 34 are fills, 17 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-106.

PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
VERSE
PART AB
PART S
13 groovesNEWSAB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Smoky?

120 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 Smoky hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 5:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Smoky?

7 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 7, 11, 12, 13, 15, 23 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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