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A Million To One · KISS

EXERCISE 6 OF 35
Join Part B to Chorus (bars 7-9)
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0 / 35 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEBTS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Million To One on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-28, snare through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-38 and toms through bars 39-42, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-19 and 21-27, and 21 more places -- 53.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
A Million To One -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 29, 34, 42, 59, 70 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- E, B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-77 -- 10 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 80-100 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is A Million To One?

117 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 A Million To One hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 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 A Million To One?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 29, 34, 42, 59, 70 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED