Best Of You · Foo Fighters

120 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-27 and 29-31, and 2 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BEST OF YOU · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 28, 32, 36, 40, 48 and 15 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 10 sections: 69 keep time, 21 are fills, 9 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-27.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
PART L
PART O
PART S8
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCQOFH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Best Of You?

127 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 You hard to play on drums?

48 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Of You?

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 28, 32, 36, 40, 48 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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