Today · Jefferson Airplane

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockCountry / FolkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-27 and 34 -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 85 BPM
TODAY · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 28, 31, 32, 38, 39 and 5 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 38-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 7 sections: 36 keep time, 11 are fills, 14 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-56.

PART A
PART F
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesOGYFA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Today?

85 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 hard to play on drums?

36 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:23 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, 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 Today?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 28, 31, 32, 38, 39 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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