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The Best (Official Bass) · Tina Turner

EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove C -- Outro 2
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OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Best (Official Bass) on drums

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.

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
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
47/100

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 17-27, 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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 10 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED