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Best of Everything V2 · Tom Petty

EXERCISE 9 OF 34
Run D1 · Part D (bars 12-23)
44 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART S1
PART D
CHORUS
PART K
PART K
PART C
OUTRO
7 groovesGCKDS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Best of Everything V2 on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 3:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
34/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, toms through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-39 and silence through bars 40-42, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 25-26, and 7 more places -- 23.9% 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
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|
Best of Everything V2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 19, 20, 27, 30, 57, 58 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- G -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, K -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 12-38 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 35-52 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 48-67 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 63-81 -- 7 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Best of Everything V2?

82 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Best of Everything V2 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.

How many fills are in Best of Everything V2?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 19, 20, 27, 30, 57, 58 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED