One Love · Bob Marley

53 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 2:43 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / ReggaeUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
53
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 10 more places -- 75% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 78 BPM
ONE LOVE · BAR 3
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 53.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 53
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

53 bars across 2 sections: 51 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-52.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is One Love?

78 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 Love hard to play on drums?

52 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?

53 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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 Love?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 53.

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