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Better Days and Wiser Times · Black Label Society

EXERCISE 8 OF 26
Groove F -- Part F
117 / 150 BARS COVERED
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CHORUS
PART E
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCFEBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Better Days and Wiser Times on drums

150 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-35, ride through bars 36-45, hi-hat through bars 46-70, ride through bars 71-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-100, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-28, 30 and 52-66, and 9 more places -- 55.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |----x-----------|
Better Days and Wiser Times -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 42 and 120.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- C, B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 41-81 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 114-128 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Better Days and Wiser Times?

128 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 Days and Wiser Times hard to play on drums?

37 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Better Days and Wiser Times?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 42 and 120.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED