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.

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

TEMPO

103 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

167

LENGTH

6:19

DIFFICULTY

71/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-115, snare through bars 116-119, hi-hat through bars 120-127, snare through bars 128-129 and hi-hat through bars 130-145, and 5 more changes after that.

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.

    109
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------------------------------x-----------|
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------------------|
SD |------------------------------------x-----------|
FT |------------x-----------------------------------|
BD |------X-----------X-----------x-x-x-------------|

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

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- AB, C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
3. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
4. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
5. Bars 22-34 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
6. Through Part C and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
7. Through Part C and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. Through Part C and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
9. and 6 more sittings after that.