Try · Blue Rodeo

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / FolkPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-44, 48-56 and 66-68, and 1 more place -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 80 BPM
TRY · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 69, 75, 76 and 77.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 75-77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 7 sections: 54 keep time, 4 are fills, 4 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-56.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesIBES1AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Try?

80 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 Try hard to play on drums?

35 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Try?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 69, 75, 76 and 77.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED
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