Treat You Better (Better Drums) · Shawn Mendes

129 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:08 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

PopRock150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-40, 57-80 and 113-120 -- 45.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 165 BPM
TREAT YOU BETTER (BETTER DRUMS) · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 11 sections: 97 keep time and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-80.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART S8
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCBS1AS8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Treat You Better (Better Drums)?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Treat You Better (Better Drums) hard to play on drums?

34 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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