Everything Is Better With Butter On It · Deadbeat Nightlife

242 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 165 BPM, 5:03 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
242
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34, 37 and 42, and 15 more places -- 11.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
EVERYTHING IS BETTER WITH BUTTER ON IT · BAR 57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

28 fills to learn, played 83 times: bars 8, 10, 16, 22, 33, 35 and 77 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

242 bars across 18 sections: 100 keep time, 83 are fills, 16 are stops and 32 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 147-152.

PART C
CHORUS
PART N
PART W
PART R
PART AP
PART AW
BREAK 2
PART BC
CHORUS 2
15 groovesICRNBC+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Everything Is Better With Butter On It?

165 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Everything Is Better With Butter On It hard to play on drums?

62 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

242 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 22 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Everything Is Better With Butter On It?

28 fills to learn, played 83 times: bars 8, 10, 16, 22, 33, 35 and 77 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 242 BARS ANALYSED
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