1 Thing bis · Amerie

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 15 more places -- 60.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
1 THING BIS · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 48.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 8 sections: 83 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-91.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
4 groovesABCKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 1 Thing bis?

100 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 1 Thing bis hard to play on drums?

58 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in 1 Thing bis?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 48.

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