Try, Try, Try · Smashing Pumpkins

135 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 5:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-18 and 20-21, and 28 more places -- 46.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 105 BPM
TRY, TRY, TRY · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 19, 30, 40, 44, 51 and 14 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 10 sections: 103 keep time, 20 are fills and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-82.

CHORUS
PART F
PART P
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
8 groovesEFPCH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Try, Try, Try?

105 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, Try, Try hard to play on drums?

43 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Try, Try, Try?

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 19, 30, 40, 44, 51 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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