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One · Metallica

EXERCISE 9 OF 83
Groove F -- Part F
103 / 244 BARS COVERED
0 / 83 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT
PART C
PART H
PART G
PART E
PART F
PART G
PART E
PART F
PART G
PART O
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesAROAWAME+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 18
LINK · 9
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play One on drums

244 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 8:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
244
LENGTH
8:32
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-137, snare through bars 138-141, hi-hat through bars 142-149, snare through bars 150-153 and hi-hat through bars 154-161, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 131, 133 and 135, and 28 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    131
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------------------------------x-----------|
HH |x-----------x-----------x-----------------------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |------x-----------x-----------x--x--------------|
One -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 13, 26, 52, 81, 82, 86 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 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 -- AR, AS -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 17-24 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 31-40 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is One?

110 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 hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

244 bars, about 8:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 23 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?

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 13, 26, 52, 81, 82, 86 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 244 BARS ANALYSED