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You Better Listen · Sublime With Rome

You Better Listen · Sublime With Rome
EXERCISE 14 OF 25
Groove H (a two-bar phrase)
106 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play You Better Listen on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-44, ride through bars 45-48, hi-hat through bars 49-92, ride through bars 93-96, hi-hat through bars 97-132 and ride through bars 133-135.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---------|
You Better Listen -- 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 24 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-24 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-94 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 4 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED