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Try Honesty (Original Audio) · Billy Talent

EXERCISE 14 OF 46
Groove L
97 / 161 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART Q
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDJVOQ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Try Honesty (Original Audio) on drums

161 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 4:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

59 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
161
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-10, ride through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-14 and ride through bars 15-16, and 28 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-42, 45-46 and 49-50, and 9 more places -- 23% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x---x-|
Try Honesty (Original Audio) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 7, 8, 22, 30, 38, 58 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- O, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Try Honesty (Original Audio)?

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 (Original Audio) hard to play on drums?

59 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Honesty (Original Audio)?

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 7, 8, 22, 30, 38, 58 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED