Smooth Operator (per Nuccione) · Sade

124 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 4:14 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-54, 65-90 and 93-124 -- 52.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 117 BPM
SMOOTH OPERATOR (PER NUCCIONE) · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 8 sections: 116 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-39.

PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesEAHS2S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Smooth Operator (per Nuccione)?

117 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 Operator (per Nuccione) hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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