One Reason · Fade

103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 9 more places -- 41.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 109 BPM
ONE REASON · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 13, 21, 25, 33, 35 and 13 more.

LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 10 sections: 68 keep time, 19 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-64.

CHORUS
PART G
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART O
OUTRO
8 groovesCOGIK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is One Reason?

109 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 Reason hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Reason?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 13, 21, 25, 33, 35 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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