The Best (Official Bass) · Tina Turner

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-27, 29-31 and 33-39, and 11 more places -- 69.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 104 BPM
THE BEST (OFFICIAL BASS) · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 28, 55, 56, 64, 72, 80 and 4 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 2 sections: 92 keep time, 10 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-54.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Best (Official Bass)?

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 (Official Bass) 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 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 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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 (Official Bass)?

9 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 28, 55, 56, 64, 72, 80 and 4 more.

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