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Try Honesty · Billy Talent

EXERCISE 32 OF 43
Run Q1 · Part Q (bars 91-100)
128 / 151 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
CHORUS
PART O
PART Q
OUTRO
9 groovesHEOQM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Try Honesty on drums

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.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-6, ride through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-10, ride through bars 11-12 and hi-hat through bars 13-32, and 26 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-----x-x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-----x-|
Try Honesty -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- M, H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-109 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 77-91 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and Part Q -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 91-105 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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