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The Less I Know The Better · Tame Impala

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBFDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Less I Know The Better on drums

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

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
45/100

hi-hat through bars 2-33, toms through bars 34-49, hi-hat through bars 50-69, toms through bars 70-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-106.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
The Less I Know The Better -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B, F -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Bars 2-78 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-56 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 74-105 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED