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One Step At a Time · As It Remains

One Step At a Time · As It Remains
EXERCISE 10 OF 45
Groove I (a two-bar phrase)
74 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3, PART A
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play One Step At a Time on drums

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.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
62/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-11, toms through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-24, snare through bars 25-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-52, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x-x-x---x-|
One Step At a Time -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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, Q -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-17 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 42-53 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 80-94 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and Part W -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED