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With A Smile · Eraserheads

EXERCISE 17 OF 22
Groove J -- Part J
121 / 154 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S10
PART J
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGDS1IS10+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play With A Smile on drums

154 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-65, kick and crashes through bars 66-70, hi-hat through bars 71-98, silence through bars 99-106 and hi-hat through bars 107-154.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-64, 83-94 and 119-154 -- 60% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x---x---x-|
With A Smile -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 31-71 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 75-98 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 106-119 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is With A Smile?

140 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 With A Smile hard to play on drums?

43 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED