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

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove H -- Chorus
0 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 35 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play But It's Better If You Do on drums

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
77/100

hi-hat through bars 2-38, silence through bars 39-45, hi-hat through bars 46-73, kick and crashes through bars 74-76, silence through bars 77-79 and snare through bars 80-87, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    24
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |-----x-------x--x------------x--|
But It's Better If You Do -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part S4 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 46-76 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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