Simply The Best · Tina Turner

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 4:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-28, 30-36 and 38-43, and 3 more places -- 46.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 104 BPM
SIMPLY THE BEST · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 29, 37, 44, 45, 57 and 7 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 44-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 4 sections: 87 keep time, 13 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-16.

PART B
CHORUS
VERSE
4 groovesDIBKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Simply The Best?

104 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 Simply The Best hard to play on drums?

59 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 Simply The Best?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 29, 37, 44, 45, 57 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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