Better Than You · Metallica

192 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 26-28 and 46-48, and 6 more places -- 8.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BETTER THAN YOU · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 20, 21, 45, 69, 85, 108 and 16 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

192 bars across 17 sections: 129 keep time, 22 are fills, 16 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-17.

PART E
PART I
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART AG
PART B
PART J
11 groovesKBIAGE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Better Than You?

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

Is Better Than You hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 You?

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 20, 21, 45, 69, 85, 108 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED
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