You Better Listen · Sublime With Rome

135 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 27 more places -- 38.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 164 BPM
YOU BETTER LISTEN · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 10 sections: 121 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 112-135.

PART B
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCBDKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is You Better Listen?

164 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 You Better Listen hard to play on drums?

55 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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