The Best of You · Foo Fighters

116 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:41 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-28 -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 126 BPM
THE BEST OF YOU · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 56 and 16 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 11 sections: 73 keep time, 22 are fills, 2 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-28.

PART C
CHORUS
PART F
PART J
PART M
PART S8
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDCMUF+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Best of You?

126 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 of You hard to play on drums?

45 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, 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 of You?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 56 and 16 more.

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