Kiss it better · Rihanna

98 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:08 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulHip Hop / Reggae90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 97% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-66 and 75-98 -- 96.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 95 BPM
KISS IT BETTER · BARS 3-4
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 3 sections: 91 keep time and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-66.

CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
2 groovesCS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kiss it better?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Kiss it better hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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