Today · 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, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 15 more places -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 55 and 60.

LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 8 sections: 54 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-51.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBHES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Today?

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 hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 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 17 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 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 Today?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 55 and 60.

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