Better Written Villain · 156/Silence

138 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-27 and 29-31, and 5 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BETTER WRITTEN VILLAIN · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 28 and 17 more.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 13 sections: 84 keep time, 23 are fills, 14 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-85.

PART A
CHORUS
PART B
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART T
CHORUS 3
PART W
PART AF
11 groovesFAFLAW+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Better Written Villain?

152 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 Written Villain hard to play on drums?

49 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 15 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 Written Villain?

17 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 28 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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