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Simply The Best · Tina Turner

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove D -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
VERSE
4 groovesDIBKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Simply The Best on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
59/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- D, B -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Verse -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Verse -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Verse and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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