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Best Friend · Rex Orange County

Best Friend · Rex Orange County
EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove E -- Part E
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COUNT-IN
PART E
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIAAEDS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Best Friend on drums

62 bars, 3:15, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-6, snare through bars 7-23, hi-hat through bars 24-38, toms through bars 39-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-59, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-11 and 16-18 -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--x-------x-----|
BD |x---x--xx---x--x|
Best Friend -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 22, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- E, I -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-15 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-62 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Best Friend?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Best Friend hard to play on drums?

53 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Best Friend?

2 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 22, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED