My One Wish · Ken Yokoyama

72 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 2:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
92/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 16-24 and 35-37, and 3 more places -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 112 BPM
MY ONE WISH · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 19 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 11-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 10 sections: 37 keep time, 25 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-24.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDFRMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My One Wish?

112 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 My One Wish hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 My One Wish?

15 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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