One - Radio Edit · Metallica

167 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 6:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
6:19
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 109, 111 and 113, and 16 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 103 BPM
ONE - RADIO EDIT · BAR 109
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 34, 72, 77, 116, 117 and 4 more.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

167 bars across 13 sections: 126 keep time, 10 are fills, 4 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 121-143.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART C
PART C
PART G
PART Y
CHORUS
OUTRO
9 groovesABCGYD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is One - Radio Edit?

103 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 - Radio Edit hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 6:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 - Radio Edit?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 34, 72, 77, 116, 117 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED
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