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EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove B -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Better Days (Full Song) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-57, toms through bars 58-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-68, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Better Days (Full Song) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- B, J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 55-66 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 95-130 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED