One Day · Lovejoy

108 bars at 183 BPM -- fast, and 2:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Pop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
183 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
2:22
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-6 and 41, and 13 more places -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 183 BPM
ONE DAY · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 13, 14, 18, 24, 31, 32 and 12 more.

LOOP · 183 BPM
BARS 13-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 183 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 183 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 183 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 7 sections: 62 keep time, 19 are fills, 18 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-49.

CHORUS
PART G
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesADGS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is One Day?

183 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 One Day hard to play on drums?

51 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 2:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 One Day?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 13, 14, 18, 24, 31, 32 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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