Better Than · John Butler Trio

90 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Country / FolkAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 26 more places -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BETTER THAN · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 57 and 89.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 8 sections: 77 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-25.

INTRO
VERSE
VERSE 2
PART I
VERSE 3
OUTRO
4 groovesDCIS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Better Than?

110 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 Than hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Than?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 57 and 89.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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