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Best Of You · Foo Fighters

EXERCISE 33 OF 52
Fill at bar 72 (a small one)
85 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART O
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Best Of You on drums

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

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

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-8, toms through bars 9-48, hi-hat through bars 49-63, snare through bars 64-79 and kick and crashes through bars 80-81, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
SD |x-----x-----x---|
FT |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- C, Q -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-57 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-68 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 65-81 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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