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The Best (AI) · Tina Turner

EXERCISE 28 OF 28
Play the whole song with the record
105 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 105 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCAIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Best (AI) on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
48/100

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 17-23, 25-27 and 29-39, and 9 more places -- 68.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
The Best (AI) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 28, 55, 56, 64, 72, 88 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 72-89 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is The Best (AI)?

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 The Best (AI) 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The Best (AI)?

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 28, 55, 56, 64, 72, 88 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED