Try Honesty · Billy Talent

151 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-34, 37-38 and 41-42, and 13 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 158 BPM
TRY HONESTY · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 3, 4, 14, 26, 30, 48 and 12 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 10 sections: 112 keep time, 18 are fills, 8 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 117-144.

CHORUS
PART O
PART Q
OUTRO
9 groovesHEOQM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Try Honesty?

158 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Try Honesty hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Try Honesty?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 3, 4, 14, 26, 30, 48 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
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