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Treat You Better (Better Drums) · Shawn Mendes

EXERCISE 11 OF 13
Run C3 · Outro (bars 113-120)
77 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Treat You Better (Better Drums) on drums

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

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
34/100

silence through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, kick and crashes through bars 41-44, snare through bars 45-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-95, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-X-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
Treat You Better (Better Drums) -- 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 12 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 54-116 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED