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One Reason · Fade
EXERCISE 19 OF 46
Fill at bar 39 and 86 (a small one)
64 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART O
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play One Reason on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-33, ride through bars 34-41, snare through bars 42-49, silence through bars 50-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-65, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    7
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------x-----x-----x-|
BD |x-----x-----x-x-----x-x---x-----|
One Reason -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-71 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 34-78 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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