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Best Of You · Foo Fighters

EXERCISE 14 OF 53
Groove F -- Part F
60 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART B
PART D
PART F
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Best Of You on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-44, ride through bars 45-52, snare through bars 53-75, kick and crashes through bars 76-77 and silence through bars 78-83, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
SD |x-----x-----x---|
T2 |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |--x-x---x-x---x-|
Best Of You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y, N -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-53 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-64 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 61-77 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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