One Day Remains · Alter Bridge

132 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 3:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-36, 38-40 and 42-44, and 8 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 139 BPM
ONE DAY REMAINS · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 25, 33, 41 and 30 more.

LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 7 sections: 87 keep time, 36 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

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

Questions

What BPM is One Day Remains?

139 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 One Day Remains hard to play on drums?

64 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 One Day Remains?

11 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 25, 33, 41 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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