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Getting Better · Shed Seven

Getting Better · Shed Seven
EXERCISE 24 OF 64
Chorus 3 into Part B with the record (bars 42-49)
121 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, PART B
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART B
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 11
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Getting Better on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-18, ride through bars 19-24, hi-hat through bars 25-72, ride through bars 73-80, hi-hat through bars 81-86 and ride through bars 87-92, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Getting Better -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- A, I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-108 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-87 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-43 -- 9 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  6. Bars 42-71 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part I and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Bars 77-111 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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