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Smooth Dancer · Deep Purple

EXERCISE 9 OF 16
2-bar fill at bar 58
83 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Smooth Dancer on drums

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.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
73/100

hi-hat through bars 3-57, snare through bars 58-60, hi-hat through bars 61-85 and snare through bars 86-88.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
SD |---x---x---x---x|
BD |x-x--x--x-x--x--|
Smooth Dancer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED