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I TRIED · Belowground

I TRIED · Belowground
EXERCISE 1 OF 7
Groove C
0 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 7 PASSED · 72 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I TRIED on drums

96 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:24 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
34/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-36, kick and crashes through bars 37-42, snare through bars 43-54, hi-hat through bars 55-57 and silence through bars 58-63, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-43, 45-47 and 49-51, and 5 more places -- 80% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---|
I TRIED -- 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 6 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 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I TRIED?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is I TRIED hard to play on drums?

34 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED