Best Of You · Foo Fighters

116 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-15 and 17-23, and 1 more place -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BEST OF YOU · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 28, 32, 36 and 22 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 12 sections: 67 keep time, 28 are fills, 2 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

PART B
PART D
PART H
PART K
PART N
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesYBDNA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Best Of You?

125 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?

51 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, 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?

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 28, 32, 36 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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