Make Me a Better Man · Malcolm Todd

57 bars, 3:15, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
57
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12 and 23 -- 17% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 70 BPM
MAKE ME A BETTER MAN · BAR 8
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 38, 39, 40, 41, 51, 52 and 3 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 38-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 55-57 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

57 bars across 8 sections: 30 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-24.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART J
PART E
PART S5
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBJERS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Make Me a Better Man?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Make Me a Better Man hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

57 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 10 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Make Me a Better Man?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 38, 39, 40, 41, 51, 52 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 57 BARS ANALYSED
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