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Better Than · John Butler Trio

Better Than · John Butler Trio
EXERCISE 7 OF 24
Groove F
66 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE, VERSE 2
INTRO
VERSE
VERSE 2
PART I
VERSE 3
OUTRO
4 groovesDCIS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Better Than on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
66/100

snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-90.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxo-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Better Than -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-74 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Intro and the Verse -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Verse 2 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-86 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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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