Know You Better · Black Pumas

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 4:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 16-19 and 21-24, and 5 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 78 BPM
KNOW YOU BETTER · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 5 sections: 75 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-53.

PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesACDBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Know You Better?

78 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 Know You Better hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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