One Of Us · Joan Osborne

110 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 5:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-24, and 18 more places -- 52.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 88 BPM
ONE OF US · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 17, 31, 39, 51, 53 and 9 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 8 sections: 83 keep time, 15 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-30.

PART B
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDBSOK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is One Of Us?

88 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 Of Us hard to play on drums?

45 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in One Of Us?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 17, 31, 39, 51, 53 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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