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One Drop · Bob Marley

EXERCISE 12 OF 44
Groove J -- Part J
96 / 139 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
CHORUS
PART J
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play One Drop on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-75, toms through bars 76-96, hi-hat through bars 97-135, toms through bars 136-137 and kick and crashes through bars 138-139.

The beat

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.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
T1 |--------x-x-----|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
One Drop -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 39-69 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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