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SMUT · Jutes

EXERCISE 6 OF 26
Groove E
30 / 62 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGBJNS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play SMUT on drums

62 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 2:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-20, snare through bars 21-35, hi-hat through bars 36-40, snare through bars 41-60 and toms through bars 61-62.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-15, and 3 more places -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    6
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------------x-----x---x-|
SMUT -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 25, 45, 49, 58, 59, 60 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 26-62 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 32-41 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is SMUT?

97 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 SMUT hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 9 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in SMUT?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 25, 45, 49, 58, 59, 60 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED