I Am One · Smashing Pumpkins

110 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-15, and 1 more place -- 18.7% 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
I AM ONE · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 18, 20, 32 and 29 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 11 sections: 60 keep time, 35 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

PART A
PART F
PART H
PART A
PART H
CHORUS
PART M
OUTRO 2
7 groovesQAHFM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Am One?

108 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 I Am One hard to play on drums?

76 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?

110 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in I Am One?

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 18, 20, 32 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Smashing Pumpkins drum parts

EVERY SMASHING PUMPKINS CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →