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West Coast Smoker · Fall Out Boy

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove E -- Chorus
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0 / 29 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEHBCM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play West Coast Smoker on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-21, snare through bars 22-29, hi-hat through bars 30-49, snare through bars 50-58 and silence through bars 59-61, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-28, 51-57 and 66-68, and 2 more places -- 34.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
West Coast Smoker -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 21, 29, 49, 50, 69, 77 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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, H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-26 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-65 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is West Coast Smoker?

120 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 West Coast Smoker hard to play on drums?

51 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 West Coast Smoker?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 21, 29, 49, 50, 69, 77 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED