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Better Hell · Bilmuri

EXERCISE 27 OF 29
Play the whole song with the record
76 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 85 BARS LIT
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBOMS2HFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Better Hell on drums

85 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 2:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:19
DIFFICULTY
62/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9, silence through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-37 and snare through bars 38-53, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 18-20, and 8 more places -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2                                                3
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------g-----------x-----------------------|------------g-----------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------------x-----------|------x-----x-----------------x-----------x-----|
Better Hell -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 25, 37, 45, 53, 69 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 58-74 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Better Hell?

146 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Hell hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Hell?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 25, 37, 45, 53, 69 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED