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When The Smoke Is Going Down · Scorpions

EXERCISE 13 OF 21
Join Chorus to Part G (bars 27-29)
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0 / 21 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCGFS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play When The Smoke Is Going Down on drums

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, ride through bars 29-34, hi-hat through bars 35-54, ride through bars 55-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-76, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-27 and 35-53, and 1 more place -- 63.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------g-|
When The Smoke Is Going Down -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 4, 12, 28 and 54.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- C -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 4-56 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 27-80 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is When The Smoke Is Going Down?

95 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 When The Smoke Is Going Down hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 When The Smoke Is Going Down?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 4, 12, 28 and 54.

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