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Better Than Me · The Brobecks

Better Than Me · The Brobecks
EXERCISE 14 OF 53
Join Part D to Part A (bars 29-31)
112 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART A
PART B
PART D
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S13
OUTRO 2
11 groovesFDGS13V+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Better Than Me on drums

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.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-13, silence through bars 14-16, hi-hat through bars 17-28, snare through bars 29-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-55, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|
Better Than Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- F, D -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-30 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-148 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 56-89 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 90-115 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 112-140 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 139-155 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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