Things Can Only Get Better · Howard Jones

107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-20, 25-29 and 31-36, and 4 more places -- 73% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 108 BPM
THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 30.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 11 sections: 88 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-71.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBCS1GI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Things Can Only Get Better?

108 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 Things Can Only Get Better hard to play on drums?

35 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Things Can Only Get Better?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 30.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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