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One In A Million · Bodyjar

One In A Million · Bodyjar
EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove D -- Chorus
0 / 67 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDGMRB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play One In A Million on drums

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 2:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
86/100

hi-hat through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-13, hi-hat through bars 14-15, ride through bars 16-19, hi-hat through bars 20-25 and snare through bars 26-33, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-13, 26-33 and 53-56, and 2 more places -- 34.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
HF |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
One In A Million -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 15, 19, 35, 39, 40, 50 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 6-25 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 47-53 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is One In A Million?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 In A Million hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is 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?

67 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 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 In A Million?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 15, 19, 35, 39, 40, 50 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED