Better Than Me · The Brobecks

176 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:08 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-30, 33 and 35, and 15 more places -- 40.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BETTER THAN ME · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 56, 64, 71, 72, 80, 88 and 8 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 71-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 18 sections: 64 keep time, 14 are fills, 63 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-28.

PART B
PART D
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S13
OUTRO 2
11 groovesFDGS13V+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Better Than Me?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Better Than Me hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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 Me?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 56, 64, 71, 72, 80, 88 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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