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That Smell · Lynyrd Skynyrd

EXERCISE 19 OF 91
Fill at bar 22, 39, 47 and 113 (a small one)
73 / 170 BARS COVERED
0 / 91 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, PART K
CHORUS
PART M
PART K
PART M
PART Y
PART AH
PART AL
CHORUS 3
PART M
PART BA
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
11 groovesEMAHBKAL+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 1
JOIN · 15
LINK · 11
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play That Smell on drums

170 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 5:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
5:58
DIFFICULTY
72/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-10, hi-hat through bars 11-27, ride through bars 28-35, hi-hat through bars 36-50 and kick and crashes through bars 51-52, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 28-29, and 8 more places -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x---x---x---x-ggx---x---x---x-gg|
SD |--------x-----gx--------x-----gx|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
That Smell -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 3, 8, 9, 10, 18, 20 and 55 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 4-36 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part M -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is That Smell?

114 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 That Smell hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 5:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 24 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in That Smell?

19 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 3, 8, 9, 10, 18, 20 and 55 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED