One · U2

102 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 24 and 26, and 28 more places -- 48% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
ONE · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 82, 86, 90 and 94.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 2 sections: 96 keep time, 4 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-66.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is One?

90 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 hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 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?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 82, 86, 90 and 94.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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