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I Am One · Smashing Pumpkins

EXERCISE 15 OF 49
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-16)
69 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Am One on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
76/100

toms through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-36, toms through bars 37-44 and ride through bars 45-48, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x----g--x---|----x----x--x-xx|
T2 |gggg-gggg-gg-ggg|gggg-gggg-gg-g--|
BD |x-x---x-x-------|x-x---x-x-------|
HF |g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-|g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-|
I Am One -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-28 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 31-37 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-45 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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