The Hardest Button To Button · The White Stripes

113 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:32 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
27/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-36, 65-72 and 98, and 3 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 128 BPM
THE HARDEST BUTTON TO BUTTON · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 7 sections: 70 keep time and 37 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-36.

PART A
CHORUS
PART D
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Hardest Button To Button?

128 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 The Hardest Button To Button hard to play on drums?

27 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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