Best of My Love · Eagles

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:30 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 10-19 and 21-36, and 3 more places -- 87.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BEST OF MY LOVE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 2 sections: 74 keep time and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-77.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Best of My Love?

88 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 My Love hard to play on drums?

38 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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