Better Be Home Soon · Crowded House

55 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 2:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
55
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 11 and 13-18, and 2 more places -- 64.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BETTER BE HOME SOON · BAR 13
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 37 and 54.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

55 bars across 5 sections: 43 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-36.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCBGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Better Be Home Soon?

92 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 Better Be Home Soon hard to play on drums?

41 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

55 bars, about 2:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Better Be Home Soon?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 37 and 54.

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