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The Best · Bonnie Tyler

EXERCISE 3 OF 34
Groove G -- Part G
60 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCFMGLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Best on drums

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

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

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
60/100

snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-109.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30, 32 and 34, and 16 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
HF |----x-------x---|
The Best -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 29, 57, 73, 85, 96 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-72 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 76-86 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Best?

106 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 hard to play on drums?

60 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 29, 57, 73, 85, 96 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED