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Today · Smashing Pumpkins

EXERCISE 18 OF 20
Play the whole song with the record
63 / 69 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 69 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Today on drums

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.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-51, toms through bars 52-59 and ride through bars 60-69.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x--x|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Today -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- B, F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-58 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED