Better Half · Get Up Kids

124 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-40, 73-100 and 121-124 -- 54.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 147 BPM
BETTER HALF · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 56.

LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 9 sections: 102 keep time, 1 is a fill, 7 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-40.

CHORUS
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesCDGES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Better Half?

147 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 Half hard to play on drums?

34 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Better Half?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 56.

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