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I Try To Think About Elvis · Patty Loveless

I Try To Think About Elvis · Patty Loveless
EXERCISE 11 OF 37
Join Part F to Chorus 2 (bars 24-26)
66 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Try To Think About Elvis on drums

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.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-19, snare through bars 20-25, hi-hat through bars 26-31, snare through bars 32-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-74, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
I Try To Think About Elvis -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- D, H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-43 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 42-51 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-76 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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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