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Smoky · Char
EXERCISE 1 OF 53
Groove W -- Verse
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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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Smoky on drums

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.

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
89/100

snare through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-16, hi-hat through bars 17-23, ride through bars 24-28, hi-hat through bars 29-35 and ride through bars 36-65, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    85
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |Xxxx-xxxXxxx-xxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |Xx---x--X-------|
Smoky -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- W -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and the Break 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  8. Bars 16-109 -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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