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Best Song Ever · One Direction

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove C -- Chorus 2
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0 / 36 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Best Song Ever on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-59, silence through bars 60-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-91.

The beat

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.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----------x---|
RD |--------x-------|
HH |----x-----------|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Best Song Ever -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-59 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 57-75 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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