The Less I Know The Better · Tame Impala

106 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-12 and 14-32, and 6 more places -- 58.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 117 BPM
THE LESS I KNOW THE BETTER · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 8 sections: 95 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-32.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART D
OUTRO
4 groovesBFDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Less I Know The Better?

117 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 Less I Know The Better hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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