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I Like Me Better · Lauv

EXERCISE 3 OF 10
Groove C
42 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 10 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
COUNT-IN
PART A
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
5 groovesBAS1ES5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Like Me Better on drums

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 3:18 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
34/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-15, hi-hat through bars 16-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-34 and silence through bars 35-36, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 20-22 and 24-26, and 7 more places -- 57.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
I Like Me Better -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- B, D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I Like Me Better?

91 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 I Like Me Better hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED