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One Tree Hill · U2

EXERCISE 17 OF 23
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 59-61)
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PART B
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGBIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play One Tree Hill on drums

95 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-95.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37, 39 and 41-43, and 9 more places -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |-o-o-o-o-o-o-o--|
SD |----x-------x--x|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
One Tree Hill -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 12, 36, 60, 68, 76, 92 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- G, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-56 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is One Tree Hill?

124 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Tree Hill hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Tree Hill?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 12, 36, 60, 68, 76, 92 and 1 more.

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