The Best · Tina Turner

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-36, 42-44 and 47-53, and 3 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 108 BPM
THE BEST · BAR 48
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 2, 30 and 106.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 106
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 9 sections: 88 keep time, 3 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-58.

PART C
CHORUS
PART J
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART U
OUTRO
8 groovesEJCAAU+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Best?

108 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 14 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 2, 30 and 106.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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