Driving in Style (better) · Thundermother

165 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 34 more places -- 48.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
DRIVING IN STYLE (BETTER) · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 14 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 33-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 123-126 · LANDS ON BAR 127 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 130 · LANDS ON BAR 131

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 12 sections: 112 keep time, 20 are fills, 18 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-52.

PART A
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART N
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEFGNA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Driving in Style (better)?

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

Is Driving in Style (better) hard to play on drums?

50 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Driving in Style (better)?

5 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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