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Im The One · Descendents

EXERCISE 3 OF 52
Groove H
39 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART Q, CHORUS
PART A
PART E
PART K
PART Q
CHORUS
PART U
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesITEKU+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Im The One on drums

103 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
60/100

ride through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, ride through bars 9-17, toms through bars 18-19, hi-hat through bars 20-21 and toms through bars 22-25, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-21, 24 and 47, and 14 more places -- 24.3% 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 |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-x-----x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Im The One -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 17, 25, 30 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- I, E -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  8. Bars 38-78 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Im The One?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Im The One hard to play on drums?

60 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Im The One?

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 17, 25, 30 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED