One Day Remains (Right Version) · Alter Bridge

132 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39-41 and 43-45, and 8 more places -- 23.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 139 BPM
ONE DAY REMAINS (RIGHT VERSION) · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 26, 30, 34, 38, 42, 46 and 29 more.

LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 139 BPM
BARS 46-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 10 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 10 sections: 81 keep time, 35 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 115-125.

PART B
PART F
PART I
CHORUS
PART F
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
6 groovesNIFBT+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is One Day Remains (Right Version)?

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 (Right Version) 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 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 One Day Remains (Right Version)?

11 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 26, 30, 34, 38, 42, 46 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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