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I Try · Macy Gray

I Try · Macy Gray
EXERCISE 15 OF 23
Join Chorus 2 to Part E (bars 41-43)
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0 / 23 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART E
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
5 groovesCEBS1S8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Try on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 3:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
42/100

hi-hat through bars 3-30, ride through bars 31-36, hi-hat through bars 37-42, ride through bars 43-57, hi-hat through bars 58-66 and ride through bars 67-69, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-5, 12-24 and 28-30, and 2 more places -- 44.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 10 and 66.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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, E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-40 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 39-68 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I Try?

78 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 I Try 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 I Try?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 10 and 66.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED