← SONGS

One Last Time · Ariana Grande

EXERCISE 27 OF 29
Run B3 · Outro (bars 70-80)
87 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
PART D
CHORUS
PART G
PART B
PART E
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFBGED+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play One Last Time on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-12, toms through bars 13-25, hi-hat through bars 26-35, toms through bars 36-38 and kick and crashes through bars 39-44, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-30, 56-60 and 66-69, and 1 more place -- 31.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-xxx-x-x-xxx-x-|
FT |x--xx---x--xx---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
One Last Time -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 52 and 53.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- F, B -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-26 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-38 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 54-73 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is One Last Time?

124 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 Last Time hard to play on drums?

60 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 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Last Time?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 52 and 53.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED