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A Single Second · AFI

EXERCISE 17 OF 44
Groove I
59 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART Q
PART M
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGMQNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Single Second on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
73/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-23, ride through bars 24-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, ride through bars 41-50 and snare through bars 51-56, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 12 and 14, and 5 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 11 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- G -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M, Q -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  7. Bars 26-33 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-69 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A Single Second?

145 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 Single Second hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 A Single Second?

12 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 11 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED