Getting Better · Shed Seven

143 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 13 and 15-18, and 26 more places -- 31.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 142 BPM
GETTING BETTER · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 14, 20, 22, 23, 24, 32 and 22 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BARS 22-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 18 sections: 93 keep time, 29 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 119-125.

CHORUS 2
PART E
PART I
PART B
CHORUS 5
PART T
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAIBET+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Getting Better?

142 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Getting Better hard to play on drums?

56 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Getting Better?

10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 14, 20, 22, 23, 24, 32 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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