Better Days (Full Song) · Currents

143 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 33 and 37, and 8 more places -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 153 BPM
BETTER DAYS (FULL SONG) · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 32, 55, 57, 107, 109, 134 and 1 more.

LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 134 · LANDS ON BAR 135 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 12 sections: 80 keep time, 7 are fills, 29 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-54.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBJCS10U+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Better Days (Full Song)?

153 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 (Full Song) 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 Days (Full Song)?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 32, 55, 57, 107, 109, 134 and 1 more.

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