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The Day I Tried To Live · Soundgarden

EXERCISE 15 OF 54
Run B1 · Part B (bars 7-18)
39 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART I
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART AH
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesNIAHBAO+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Day I Tried To Live on drums

88 bars, 7:29, at 45 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
45 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
7:29
DIFFICULTY
82/100

silence through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-14, toms through bars 15-18, hi-hat through bars 19-26, ride through bars 27-31 and hi-hat through bars 32-33, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21 and 23, and 7 more places -- 12.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19
    1.......2.......3.......4...
CC |x---------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-g-------g-----x-gg|
BD |x---x-x-------x-x---x-------|
The Day I Tried To Live -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 24, 28, 31 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-32 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 15-34 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 36-46 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Day I Tried To Live?

45 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Day I Tried To Live hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 7:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The Day I Tried To Live?

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 24, 28, 31 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED