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Smooth Sailing · Queens Of The Stone Age

EXERCISE 6 OF 26
Join Part S2 to Chorus (bars 9-11)
75 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2, CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDINS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Smooth Sailing on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 4:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-9 and hi-hat through bars 10-115.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-23, 25-39 and 41-43, and 5 more places -- 65.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    11               12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x-----x---x--x--|
HF |x---------------|----------------|
Smooth Sailing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 48, 73 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 88-100 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Smooth Sailing?

94 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 Sailing hard to play on drums?

56 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Smooth Sailing?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 48, 73 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED