I Try To Think About Elvis · Patty Loveless

107 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:40 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Country / Folk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11-19 and 26-28, and 7 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
I TRY TO THINK ABOUT ELVIS · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 46, 50, 58, 59, 63 and 6 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 58-59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 12 sections: 56 keep time, 12 are fills, 17 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-19.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART F
PART G
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDFHS1G+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Try To Think About Elvis?

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 Try To Think About Elvis hard to play on drums?

52 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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 To Think About Elvis?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 46, 50, 58, 59, 63 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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