THE GREATEST · Billie Eilish

24 bars, 1:30, at 64 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

ElectronicPopUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
24
LENGTH
1:30
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 2 more places -- 57.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 64 BPM
THE GREATEST · BAR 9
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 22 and 24.

LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

24 bars across 4 sections: 14 keep time, 5 are fills and 5 are silent.

COUNT-IN
PART B
OUTRO
4 groovesCS1BS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is THE GREATEST?

64 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 THE GREATEST hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

24 bars, about 1:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in THE GREATEST?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 22 and 24.

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