One · Sunny Day Real Estate

161 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 145 BPM, 3:53 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-38 and 40-43, and 22 more places -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 145 BPM
ONE · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 32, 56, 80, 98, 103 and 9 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 11 sections: 67 keep time, 15 are fills, 56 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

PART B
CHORUS
PART S5
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJBFS5S2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is One?

145 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 32, 56, 80, 98, 103 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
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