Today - Easy Drums · smashing pumpkins

69 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 3:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 21, and 14 more places -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 83 BPM
TODAY - EASY DRUMS · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 22, 24, 26, 38, 40 and 7 more.

LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 7 sections: 42 keep time, 13 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-58.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBEMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Today - Easy Drums?

83 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 Today - Easy Drums hard to play on drums?

39 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Today - Easy Drums?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 22, 24, 26, 38, 40 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED
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