Best Song Ever · One Direction

91 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Pop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 11 and 23-30, and 9 more places -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 119 BPM
BEST SONG EVER · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 6, 10, 31, 32, 33, 55 and 16 more.

LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 119 BPM
BARS 31-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 119 BPM
BARS 55-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 9 sections: 47 keep time, 22 are fills, 3 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-44.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCES8S1S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Best Song Ever?

119 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 Song Ever hard to play on drums?

58 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Song Ever?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 6, 10, 31, 32, 33, 55 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED
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