Rather Be · Clean Bandit

110 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
31/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-46, 49-59 and 70-79, and 1 more place -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
RATHER BE · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 40 and 80.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 13 sections: 75 keep time, 2 are fills and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 95-110.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART G
PART G
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
8 groovesFGS1CD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rather Be?

120 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 Rather Be hard to play on drums?

31 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 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.

How many fills are in Rather Be?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 40 and 80.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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