But It's Better If You Do · Panic! At The Disco

124 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:53 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 26-28 and 30-32, and 9 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BUT IT'S BETTER IF YOU DO · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 56 and 6 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 18-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 56-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 121-123 · LANDS ON BAR 124 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 12 sections: 83 keep time, 12 are fills, 5 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-17.

PART B
CHORUS
PART S4
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHBXS4U+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is But It's Better If You Do?

170 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 But It's Better If You Do hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in But It's Better If You Do?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 56 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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