Better Off Alone · Alice Deejay

122 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

ElectronicHip Hop / Reggae120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 74% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-15, 30-69 and 90-121 -- 73.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BETTER OFF ALONE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 8 sections: 98 keep time and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-69.

PART B
CHORUS
PART S4
CHORUS 2
PART S6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCS6BGS4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Better Off Alone?

137 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 Off Alone hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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