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Better Written Villain · 156/Silence

EXERCISE 1 OF 76
Groove F -- Chorus
0 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 76 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Better Written Villain on drums

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

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
49/100

snare through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-74, hi-hat through bars 75-94, kick and crashes through bars 95-96 and toms through bars 97-98, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---x-x-x-|
Better Written Villain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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, AF -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-40 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 40-65 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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