Better in the Dark · Jordana, TV Girl

56 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 2:29 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
56
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-16, 21-36 and 49-56 -- 71.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BETTER IN THE DARK · BARS 1-2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

56 bars across 5 sections: 50 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
OUTRO
VERSE 3
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Better in the Dark?

90 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 in the Dark hard to play on drums?

53 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

56 bars, about 2:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 56 BARS ANALYSED
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