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The Best Of You · Mono Inc.

EXERCISE 7 OF 24
Groove E -- Part E
80 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART A
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDEAIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Best Of You on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 1-96, toms through bars 97-104 and hi-hat through bars 105-120.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 31 and 33-47, and 4 more places -- 60% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 32, 48, 64 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 29-97 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 96-105 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Best Of You?

122 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?

47 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 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 Of You?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 32, 48, 64 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED