Mama Tried
Merle Haggard · 1968
A fast Bakersfield freight-train beat that builds train-groove endurance.
- Artist
- Merle Haggard
- Year
- 1968
- Genre
- classic country
- Drummer
- session
- Tempo
- 195 bpm
- Time
- 4/4
- Feel
- train beat
- Difficulty
- intermediate
Drummer's Quick-Start
Practice tempos
Woodshed
118bpm
Building
156bpm
Target
195bpm
The feel
A train beat in 4/4 around 195 BPM. It's fast — economy of motion is everything; speed comes from relaxation, not force.
What to watch
- •Play to a metronome and prize consistency over speed — even time is the whole game.
How to learn it
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