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Everything Is Better With Butter On It · Deadbeat Nightlife

EXERCISE 35 OF 110
Groove W -- Part W
99 / 242 BARS COVERED
0 / 110 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, PART W
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
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 28
LAND · 28
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Everything Is Better With Butter On It on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
242
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, silence through bars 25-37, toms through bars 38-48, snare through bars 49-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-53, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    57
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---|
BD |x--x--x---x-|
Everything Is Better With Butter On It -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 81 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 -- I -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-79 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 69-111 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part W -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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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