One - · U2 - Mary J. Blige

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / Soul90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 16 more places -- 41% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 95 BPM
ONE - · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 62, 70, 73, 78, 79 and 2 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 78-81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 6 sections: 62 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-25.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is One -?

95 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?

47 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 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 -?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 62, 70, 73, 78, 79 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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