One Drop · Bob Marley

139 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 3:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / ReggaeRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9 and 11, and 27 more places -- 44.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 142 BPM
ONE DROP · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 36, 52, 56 and 8 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 12 sections: 103 keep time, 14 are fills, 6 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-34.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART Q
PART T
CHORUS 4
PART A
7 groovesCTAQE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is One Drop?

142 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 Drop hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Drop?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 36, 52, 56 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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