One Step At a Time · As It Remains

140 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 3:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalCountry / Folk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 9-11 and 25-27, and 7 more places -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 184 BPM
ONE STEP AT A TIME · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 32, 36, 56, 60, 93 and 6 more.

LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 93 · LANDS ON BAR 94

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 16 sections: 78 keep time, 12 are fills, 23 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 95-102.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK
PART W
PART N
PART A
OUTRO
10 groovesCAHNW+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is One Step At a Time?

184 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is One Step At a Time hard to play on drums?

62 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in One Step At a Time?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 32, 36, 56, 60, 93 and 6 more.

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