Smooth Dancer · Deep Purple

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 4:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-14, 16-23 and 26-36, and 5 more places -- 70.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 85 BPM
SMOOTH DANCER · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 58, 59, 86 and 87.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 58-59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 86-87 · LANDS ON BAR 88 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 4 sections: 78 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-47.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Smooth Dancer?

85 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 Smooth Dancer hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Smooth Dancer?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 58, 59, 86 and 87.

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